Dataset: South Africa Census, 1996: Household (10% Sample)

Variable hohecona: Employment status of head of household

Literal Question

How can one best describe (the person's) activities or work status?

Descriptive Text

Derived from census records for persons

Values Categories N NW
1 Employed 435434 4,698,962.5
 51.9%
2 Unemployed, looking for work 120205 1,276,326.7
 14.1%
3 Not working - not looking for work 23708 250,101.6
 2.8%
4 Not working - housewife/home-maker 45349 472,759.6
 5.2%
6 Not working - scholar/full-time student 27897 301,516.1
 3.3%
7 Not working - pensioner/retired person 150670 1,600,152.9
 17.7%
8 Not working - disabled person 9667 102,326.7
 1.1%
9 Not working - not wishing to work 8271 86,992.3
 1.0%
10 Not working - none of the above 20950 222,694.3
 2.5%
99 Unspecified/Dummy 4327 47,315.9
 0.5%

Summary Statistics

Valid cases 846478 9059148.74
Missing cases 0 0.0
Minimum 1.0
Maximum 99.0
This variable is numeric

Universe

All households

Notes

See Gender of head of household

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