General Household Survey 2025

South Africa, 2025

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zaf-statssa-ghs-2025-v1

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https://doi.org/10.25828/a4a6-p161

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South African Household Survey Data

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Jun 02, 2026

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Jun 02, 2026

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Reason for not trying to find work or starting a business (lab_rnsw)

Data file: ghs-2025-person-v1

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Valid: 0

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Maximum:

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Standard deviation:

Type: Discrete

Width: 57

Format: Numeric

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Categories

Value	Category
1	1. Awaiting the season for work
2	2. Waiting to be recalled from a job
3	3. Health reasons
4	4. Pregnancy
5	5. Disabled or unable to work (Handicapped)
6	6. Housewife/homemaker (Family considerations/child care)
7	7. Undergoing training to help find work
8	8. No jobs available in the area
9	9. Lack of money to pay for transport to look for work
10	10. Unable to find work requiring his/her skills
11	11. Lost hope of finding any kind of work
12	12. No transport available
13	13. Scholar or student
14	14. Retired
15	15. Too old/young to work
16	16. Did not want to work
17	17. OTHER REASON THAN ANY OF THE ABOVE
88	88. Not applicable

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.

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