National Income Dynamics Study 2012
South Africa, 2012
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ZAF_2012_NIDS-W3_v01_EN_M_v01_A_OCS
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e79_1 - Respondent has done ... to search for work or to start a business? - 1 (w3_a_unems1)
Data file: Adult_W3_Anon_V2.1
Overview
Valid:
2791
Invalid:
19675
Minimum:
1
Maximum:
11
Type:
Discrete
Decimal:
0
Start:
1082
End:
1083
Width:
2
Range:
1 - 11
Format:
Numeric
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Categories
| Value | Category | Cases | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Registered at an employment agency | 457 |
16.4%
|
| 2 | Enquired at workplaces, farms, factories, or called on other possible employers | 1184 |
42.4%
|
| 3 | Placed advertisement(s) | 158 |
5.7%
|
| 4 | Answered advertisements | 238 |
8.5%
|
| 5 | Searched through job advertisement(s) on the internet | 52 |
1.9%
|
| 6 | Sought assistance from relatives or friends | 498 |
17.8%
|
| 7 | Looked for land, building, equipment or applied for permit to start own business or farming | 7 |
0.3%
|
| 8 | Waited at the side of the road | 27 |
1%
|
| 9 | Sought financial assistance to start a business | 9 |
0.3%
|
| 10 | Other | 3 |
0.1%
|
| 11 | Nothing | 158 |
5.7%
|
| Sysmiss | 19675 |
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.