General Household Survey 2018
South Africa, 2018
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ZAF_2018_GHS_v01_EN_M_v01_A_OCS
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Reason for not trying to find work or starting a business (Q46cRNSW)
Data file: ghs-2019-person-1.0-stata11
Overview
Valid:
71137
Invalid:
0
Type:
Discrete
Decimal:
0
Start:
226
End:
227
Width:
2
Range:
1 - 99
Format:
Numeric
Questions and instructions
Categories
| Value | Category | Cases | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Awaiting the season for work | 48 |
0.1%
|
| 2 | Waiting to be recalled to former job | 22 |
0%
|
| 3 | Health reasons | 205 |
0.3%
|
| 4 | Pregnancy | 70 |
0.1%
|
| 5 | Disabled or unable to work (Handicapped) | 33 |
0%
|
| 6 | Housewife/homemaker (Family considerations/child care) | 357 |
0.5%
|
| 7 | Undergoing training to help find work | 13 |
0%
|
| 8 | No jobs available in the area | 2532 |
3.6%
|
| 9 | Lack of money to pay for transport to look for work | 193 |
0.3%
|
| 10 | Unable to find work requiring his/her skills | 229 |
0.3%
|
| 11 | Lost hope of finding any kind of work | 219 |
0.3%
|
| 12 | No transport available | 2 |
0%
|
| 13 | Scholar or student | 409 |
0.6%
|
| 14 | Retired | 80 |
0.1%
|
| 15 | Too old/young to work | 12 |
0%
|
| 16 | Did not want to work | 6 |
0%
|
| 17 | Other | 121 |
0.2%
|
| 88 | Not applicable | 45706 |
64.3%
|
| 99 | Unspecified | 20880 |
29.4%
|
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.