Income and Expenditure Survey 2022-2023
South Africa, 2022 - 2023
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zaf-statssa-ies-2022-2023-v1.1
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Dec 19, 2025
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Reason not attending educational institution (EDU_RSNN)
Data file: ies-2022-2023-person-v1.1
Overview
Valid:
70339
Invalid:
0
Type:
Discrete
Decimal:
0
loc_start_pos:
72
loc_end_pos:
73
Width:
2
Range:
1 - 88
Format:
Numeric
Questions and instructions
Categories
| Value | Category | Cases | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Too old/young | 14091 |
20%
|
| 2 | Has completed education/satisfied with my level of education/do not want to study | 3306 |
4.7%
|
| 3 | School/education institution is too far | 173 |
0.2%
|
| 4 | Difficulties to get to school (transport) | 182 |
0.3%
|
| 5 | No money for fees | 11179 |
15.9%
|
| 6 | He or she is working at home or business/job | 2339 |
3.3%
|
| 7 | Left school due to Covid-19 and have not returned | 60 |
0.1%
|
| 8 | Family commitment (e.g. child minding) | 2706 |
3.8%
|
| 9 | Education is useless or not interesting | 651 |
0.9%
|
| 10 | Unable to perform at school | 1332 |
1.9%
|
| 11 | Illness | 762 |
1.1%
|
| 12 | Pregnancy | 449 |
0.6%
|
| 13 | Failed exams | 575 |
0.8%
|
| 14 | Got married | 179 |
0.3%
|
| 15 | Disability | 350 |
0.5%
|
| 16 | Violence in school | 57 |
0.1%
|
| 17 | Not accepted for enrolment | 703 |
1%
|
| 18 | Do not have time/too busy | 1477 |
2.1%
|
| 19 | OTHER | 1276 |
1.8%
|
| 88 | Not applicable | 28492 |
40.5%
|
Warning: these figures indicate the number of cases found in the data file. They cannot be interpreted as summary statistics of the population of interest.