Longitudinal Socioeconomic Study of Refugees and Host Communities 2022-2024
Wave 1 and 2
Kenya, 2022 - 2024
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3. Main reason for not looking for work or starting a business in the last month (a8_b_not_looking_why)
Data file: hhm
Overview
Valid:
32556
Minimum:
-77
Maximum:
20
Type:
Discrete
Width:
51
Format:
Numeric
Questions and instructions
Categories
| Value | Category | Cases | |
|---|---|---|---|
| -77 | Other | 215 |
0.7%
|
| 1 | No jobs available in the area, | 11024 |
33.9%
|
| 2 | Unable to work (incapacitated), | 906 |
2.8%
|
| 3 | Unable to find work requiring his/her skills, | 916 |
2.8%
|
| 4 | home maker (housewife/family responsibilities), | 3984 |
12.2%
|
| 5 | discouraged worker, | 102 |
0.3%
|
| 6 | child care problems, | 276 |
0.8%
|
| 7 | employers think too old/too young to work, | 681 |
2.1%
|
| 8 | full time student / pupil, | 10385 |
31.9%
|
| 9 | awaiting the season for work, | 37 |
0.1%
|
| 10 | waiting to be recalled to former job, | 36 |
0.1%
|
| 11 | have already found a job which will start later, | 47 |
0.1%
|
| 12 | transportation problems, | 0 | |
| 13 | pregnancy, | 154 |
0.5%
|
| 14 | sickness/injury, | 586 |
1.8%
|
| 15 | dont need work, | 1001 |
3.1%
|
| 16 | business closed, | 49 |
0.2%
|
| 17 | retired, | 580 |
1.8%
|
| 18 | waiting to attend an interview, | 35 |
0.1%
|
| 19 | Lack of work permit or other documents | 1051 |
3.2%
|
| 20 | Lack of capital | 491 |
1.5%
|
| 21 | other (specify) | 0 | |
| a | Don't know | 0 | |
| b | Refused to answer | 0 | |
| c | Outlier set to missing | 0 | |
| d | Dropped during anonymization (available on request) | 0 | |
| e | Skipped in error | 0 | |
| m | Not available in wave | 0 | |
| z | Not applicable | 0 |
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.