Survey of Employers and Self-Employed 2017
South Africa, 2017
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Data file: sese-2017-v1-stata11
Overview
Valid:
1658
Invalid:
0
Type:
Discrete
Decimal:
0
Start:
105
End:
106
Width:
2
Range:
1 - 16
Format:
Numeric
Questions and instructions
Categories
| Value | Category | Cases | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Inherited/family tradition | 64 |
3.9%
|
| 2 | Unemployed | 860 |
51.9%
|
| 3 | Had no alternative income source | 151 |
9.1%
|
| 4 | Retrenched | 54 |
3.3%
|
| 5 | Inadequate income from the other source | 33 |
2%
|
| 6 | I like the activity | 70 |
4.2%
|
| 7 | I have the skills for this business | 114 |
6.9%
|
| 8 | I have equipment for this business | 4 |
0.2%
|
| 9 | Activity brings high income | 5 |
0.3%
|
| 10 | Small investment needed | 1 |
0.1%
|
| 11 | Unhappiness with previous work | 19 |
1.1%
|
| 12 | New opportunity/ Idea | 17 |
1%
|
| 13 | Other | 40 |
2.4%
|
| 14 | To survive/make ends meet/provide for my family | 183 |
11%
|
| 15 | I want to be my own boss or create employment for other people | 24 |
1.4%
|
| 16 | I want to earn money while I searched for a job | 19 |
1.1%
|
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.