General Household Survey 2003
South Africa, 2003
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zaf-statssa-ghs-2003-v1.4
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Oct 10, 2011
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Data file: ghs-2003-worker-v1.4
Overview
Valid:
998
Invalid:
0
Type:
Discrete
Decimal:
0
Width:
2
Range:
1 - 99
Format:
Numeric
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Categories
| Value | Category | Cases | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Has found a job, but is only starting at a definite date in the future | 0 |
0%
|
| 2 | Scholar or student and prefers not to work | 39 |
3.9%
|
| 3 | Housewife/homemaker and prefers not to work | 106 |
10.6%
|
| 4 | Retired and prefers not to seek formal work | 38 |
3.8%
|
| 5 | Illness, invalid, disabled or unable to work (handicapped) | 85 |
8.5%
|
| 6 | Too young or too old to work | 51 |
5.1%
|
| 7 | Seasonal worker, e.g. fruit picker, wool-shearer | 20 |
2%
|
| 8 | Lack of skills or qualifications for available jobs | 0 |
0%
|
| 9 | Cannot find any work | 82 |
8.2%
|
| 10 | Cannot find suitable work (salary, location of work or conditions not satisfactory) | 1 |
0.1%
|
| 11 | Contract worker, e.g. mine worker resting according to contract | 6 |
0.6%
|
| 12 | Recently retrenched | 43 |
4.3%
|
| 88 | Not applicable | 3 |
0.3%
|
| 99 | Unspecified | 524 |
52.5%
|
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.