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Survey of Activities of Young People 2010

South Africa, 2010
Reference ID
ZAF_2010_SAYP_v01_M
Producer(s)
Statistics South Africa
Metadata
DDI/XML JSON
Created on
Apr 25, 2019
Last modified
Apr 25, 2019
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  • Study Description
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  • Data Files
  • r1 - Household
    Characteristics,
    Household Head
  • r2 - Household
    Member
    Characteristics
  • r5 - Housing
    Characteristics
  • r6 - Payment
    Transfers
    (Transferee)
  • r7 - Payment
    Transfers
    (Transferor)
  • r3 - Income
    from Other
    Sources
  • r4 - Change of
    Assets and
    Liabilities
  • r8 -
    Consumption of
    Goods and
    Services
  • r9 - 7-day Food
    Consumption
  • r10 - Household
    Income
  • r11 - Energy
    Consumption
  • r12 - Summary
    Household
    Expenditures
CSV JSON

Work status primary job (b09)

Data file: r2 - Household Member Characteristics

Overview

Valid: 42464
Invalid: 10543
Minimum: 1
Maximum: 9
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Range: -
Format:

Questions and instructions

Categories
Value Category
1 Employer
2 Own-account Worker
3 Employee - Private
4 Employee - Government
5 Unpaid Family Worker
6 Unemployed
7 Economically Inactive
9 No Occupation
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.

Description

Definition
Work Status
Work status was classified into 7 different categories as follows:
(1) An employer was defined as a person who operated his or her own enterprise for profit or dividends and hired one or more persons as his or her employee.
(2) An own-account worker in the form of a partnership either for profit or dividends and hired no employees.
(3) A private employee was a person who worked for pay in a government agency, a government enterprise as well as an international organization.
(5) An unpaid family member was a person worked without pay on a farm or in a business owned or operated by the household head or other household members.
(6) A person looking for work was a person who did not work at all during the last 52 weeks but has applied for work either at business establishments or by mailing letters of application.
(7) An economically inactive person was one of the following:
a) a housewife or person who worked around the house
b) a student
c) a retired person
d) a disabled person who was unable to work because of physical or mental disability or because of chronic illness
e) a person doing nothing who was voluntarily idle, and
f) a beggar
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