General Household Survey 2006
South Africa, 2006
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zaf-statssa-ghs-2006-v1.4
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Oct 13, 2011
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Data file: zaf-statssa-ghs-2006-worker-v1.4
Overview
Valid:
998
Invalid:
0
Type:
Discrete
Decimal:
0
Width:
2
Range:
1 - 99
Format:
Numeric
Questions and instructions
Categories
| Value | Category | Cases | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Has found a job, but is only starting at a definite date in the future | 1 |
0.1%
|
| 2 | Scholar or student and prefers not to work | 81 |
8.1%
|
| 3 | Housewife/homemaker and prefers not to work | 60 |
6%
|
| 4 | Retired and prefers not to seek formal work | 34 |
3.4%
|
| 5 | Illness, invalid, disabled or unable to work (handicapped) | 65 |
6.5%
|
| 6 | Too young or too old to work | 44 |
4.4%
|
| 7 | Seasonal worker, e.g. fruit picker, wool-shearer | 9 |
0.9%
|
| 8 | Lack of skills or qualifications for available jobs | 6 |
0.6%
|
| 9 | Cannot find any work | 78 |
7.8%
|
| 10 | Cannot find suitable work (salary, location of work or conditions not satisfactory) | 23 |
2.3%
|
| 11 | Contract worker, e.g. mine worker resting according to contract | 0 |
0%
|
| 12 | Recently retrenched | 3 |
0.3%
|
| 13 | Other reason | 29 |
2.9%
|
| 88 | Not applicable | 67 |
6.7%
|
| 99 | Unspecified | 498 |
49.9%
|
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.