National Income Dynamics Study 2008

South Africa, 2008

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ZAF_2008_NIDS-W1_v08_M

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Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit

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e71_5 - Respondent has done ... to search for work or to start a business? - 5 (w1_a_unems5)

Data file: Adult_W1_Anon_V6.1

Overview

Valid: 7

Invalid: 16864

Minimum: 5

Maximum: 8

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 787

End: 788

Width: 2

Range: -

Format:

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Categories

Value	Category
-9	Don't Know
-8	Refused
-5	Not Applicable
-3	Missing
1	Registered at an employment agency
2	Enquired at workplaces, farms, factories, or called on other possible employers
3	Placed advertisement(s)
4	Answered advertisements
5	Searched through job advertisement(s) on the internet
6	Sought assistance from relatives or friends
7	Looked for land, building, equipment or applied for permit to start own business or farming
8	Waited on the side of the road
9	Sought financial assistance to start a business
10	Other
11	Nothing
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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.

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