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General Household Survey 2021

South Africa, 2021
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ZAF_2021_GHS_v01_EN_M_v01_A_ESS
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Government of South Africa, Statistics South Africa (Stats SA)
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" Reason for not trying to find work or starting a business " (lab_rnsw)

Data file: ghs-2021-person-v1

Overview

Valid: 1000
Invalid: -
Type: Discrete
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Categories
Value Category
1 Awaiting the season for work
2 Waiting to be recalled to former job
3 Health reasons
4 Pregnancy
5 Disabled or unable to work (Handicapped)
6 Housewife/Homemaker (Family considerations/child care)
7 Undergoing training to help find work
8 No jobs available in the area
9 Lack of money to pay for transport to look for work
10 Unable to find work requiring his/her skills
11 Lost hope of finding any kind of work
12 No transport available
13 Scholar or student
14 Retired/on pension/too old to work
15 Too young to work
16 Did not want to work
17 Other
88 Not applicable
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.

Description

Source of information
" Reason for not trying to find work or starting a business "

Imputation and derivation

Imputation
" Reason for not trying to find work or starting a business "

Others

Security
" Reason for not trying to find work or starting a business "
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