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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Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit
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c1 - Current activities (w3_p_emactcur)
Data file: Proxy_W3_Anon_V2.1
Overview
Valid:
2711
Invalid:
4
Minimum:
-9
Maximum:
10
Type:
Discrete
Decimal:
0
Start:
158
End:
159
Width:
2
Range:
-9 - 10
Format:
Numeric
Questions and instructions
Categories
| Value | Category | Cases | |
|---|---|---|---|
| -9 | Don't know | 32 |
1.2%
|
| -8 | Refused | 3 |
0.1%
|
| -5 | Not applicable | 0 |
0%
|
| -3 | Missing | 0 |
0%
|
| 1 | Working for pay | 870 |
32.1%
|
| 2 | Self-employed | 75 |
2.8%
|
| 3 | Working on own plot or looking after livestock | 3 |
0.1%
|
| 4 | Helping another family member with their business, without pay | 11 |
0.4%
|
| 5 | Full-time scholar or student at school, university, college or another educational institution | 535 |
19.7%
|
| 6 | Homemaker (looking after children / others / home) | 43 |
1.6%
|
| 7 | Long term sick or disabled | 222 |
8.2%
|
| 8 | Retired | 137 |
5.1%
|
| 9 | Unemployed and actively searching for a job in the last four weeks | 459 |
16.9%
|
| 10 | Unemployed but not actively searching for a job in the last four weeks. | 321 |
11.8%
|
| Sysmiss | 4 |
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.