General Household Survey 2016
South Africa, 2016
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ZAF_2016_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 2016 Person v1.1 Stata11
Overview
Valid:
72602
Invalid:
0
Type:
Discrete
Decimal:
0
Start:
259
End:
260
Width:
2
Range:
1 - 99
Format:
Numeric
Questions and instructions
Categories
| Value | Category | Cases | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Awaiting the season for work | 61 |
0.1%
|
| 2 | Waiting to be recalled to former job | 47 |
0.1%
|
| 3 | Health reasons | 220 |
0.3%
|
| 4 | Pregnancy | 79 |
0.1%
|
| 5 | Disabled or unable to work (Handicapped) | 40 |
0.1%
|
| 6 | Housewife/homemaker (Family considerations/child care) | 392 |
0.5%
|
| 7 | Undergoing training to help find work | 16 |
0%
|
| 8 | No jobs available in the area | 2622 |
3.6%
|
| 9 | Lack of money to pay for transport to look for work | 266 |
0.4%
|
| 10 | Unable to find work requiring his/her skills | 211 |
0.3%
|
| 11 | Lost hope of finding any kind of work | 209 |
0.3%
|
| 12 | No transport available | 4 |
0%
|
| 13 | Scholar or student | 385 |
0.5%
|
| 14 | Retired | 57 |
0.1%
|
| 15 | Too old/young to work | 26 |
0%
|
| 16 | Did not want to work | 12 |
0%
|
| 17 | Other | 114 |
0.2%
|
| 88 | Not applicable | 46267 |
63.7%
|
| 99 | Unspecified | 21574 |
29.7%
|
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.