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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e79 - Main reason behind cessation in job search (w1_a_noemsrex)

Data file: Adult_W1_Anon_V6.1

Overview

Valid: 476

Invalid: 16395

Minimum: -3

Maximum: 12

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 820

End: 821

Width: 2

Range: -

Format:

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Value	Category
-9	Don't Know
-8	Refused
-5	Not Applicable
-3	Missing
1	I became discouraged (I did not think I would ever find a job
2	I got pregnant/had a child
3	I had family responsibilities that prevented me from looking
4	I got married
5	I could not afford the costs of looking for work
6	I decided to go back to school/study further
7	I became disabled
8	I decided I was too old to work anymore
9	The wages were too low
10	I chose not to look for work
11	Other
12	Still looking for work
Sysmiss

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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