National Income Dynamics Study 2014
South Africa, 2014 - 2015
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ZAF_2014_NIDS-W4_v01_EN_M_v01_A_OCS
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eg11_1 - Respondent has done ... to search for work or to start a business? - 1 (w4_a_unems1)
Data file: Adult_W4_Anon_V1.0
Overview
Valid:
3057
Invalid:
23762
Minimum:
1
Maximum:
11
Type:
Discrete
Decimal:
0
Start:
1995
End:
1996
Width:
2
Range:
1 - 11
Format:
Numeric
Questions and instructions
Categories
| Value | Category | Cases | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Registered at an employment agency | 435 |
14.2%
|
| 2 | Enquired at workplaces, farms, factories, or called on other possible employers | 1021 |
33.4%
|
| 3 | Placed advertisement(s) | 271 |
8.9%
|
| 4 | Answered advertisements | 314 |
10.3%
|
| 5 | Searched through job advertisement(s) on the internet | 101 |
3.3%
|
| 6 | Sought assistance from relatives or friends | 539 |
17.6%
|
| 7 | Looked for land, building, equipment or applied for permit to start own business or farming | 12 |
0.4%
|
| 8 | Waited at the side of the road | 41 |
1.3%
|
| 9 | Sought financial assistance to start a business | 8 |
0.3%
|
| 10 | Other | 6 |
0.2%
|
| 11 | Nothing | 309 |
10.1%
|
| Sysmiss | 23762 |
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.