Labour Force Survey 2018
Gambia, The, 2018
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GMB_2018_LFS_v01_M
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- LFS_Final
UB5 OTHER (ub5_other)
Data file: LFS_Final
Overview
Valid:
1860
Invalid:
-
Type:
Discrete
Range:
-
Format:
character
Questions and instructions
Literal question
What was the main reason for failing to secure work during this period?
Categories
| Value | Category |
|---|---|
| 7farming\n | |
| AGRICULTURAL ACTIVITIES | |
| APPERENTICE | |
| APPRENTICESHIP | |
| ARABIC SCHOOL | |
| ARABIC STUDENT | |
| Aged.\n | |
| Agricultural activities | |
| Agricultural season | |
| Agricutural activities | |
| Arabic student | |
| BUILDING OF HIS HOUSE | |
| Busy at the farm | |
| Busy at the rice field | |
| Busy with Farming activit | |
| Busy with farm and alkolo | |
| Busy with farming | |
| Busy with farming and hou | |
| Busy with rice field and | |
| CANNOT WORK ALL YEAR | |
| CARING HER FAMILY | |
| DIDNT LOOK FOR JOB | |
| DIGGING OF GUWWEY | |
| DONT LOOK FOR JOB\n | |
| Digging of nguwehh | |
| END OF CONTRACT | |
| Engaged in GARDENING | |
| Engaged in farming | |
| Engaged in farming activi | |
| FAMER | |
| FAMILY REASON | |
| FARM PRODUCE | |
| FARMING | |
| Famer | |
| Famer\n | |
| Family reason. | |
| Faming | |
| Farm work | |
| Farmer | |
| Farming | |
| Farming is my job | |
| Farming\n\n\n | |
| From daara, now farming | |
| GARDENING | |
| GARDENING PURPOSE | |
| GOES TO THE FARO\n | |
| Gardening | |
| Gardening PURPOSE | |
| Gardening/ Rice cultivati | |
| Going to Arabic school | |
| Going to Arabic school \n | |
| HANDICAPPED | |
| HARVEST FROM FARM | |
| HELPING PARENTS | |
| He does cattle trading | |
| He feels like not to work | |
| He has never work before | |
| He isa student | |
| He was schooling | |
| He's not well. | |
| Housewife | |
| Housewife.\n | |
| Housewife\n | |
| I DIDN'T FIND FOR WORK BE | |
| I DIDN'T FIND FOR WORK, N | |
| I help my husband on the | |
| I sork at a bar and its c | |
| I was sick". | |
| I work on my husband's f | |
| Just completed school | |
| Just graduated from G12 | |
| LACK OF EDUCATION | |
| NO JOBS AVAILABLE IN MY A | |
| OLD\n | |
| Old | |
| Old age group | |
| Old too work | |
| Parents did not want her | |
| Poor result | |
| RICE CULTIVATION | |
| Rice cultivation | |
| SEASONAL CHANGE | |
| SHE GOES TO THE FARM | |
| SICK CHILD | |
| STUDENT | |
| Shop keeper in Senegal\n | |
| Sickness and Mentall | |
| Still going to school | |
| Student | |
| Student. | |
| Subsistence farmer/garden | |
| The employer has lot of | |
| Waiing for respond from e | |
| Wants to work on his own. | |
| Was schooling \n | |
| Working on his own farm | |
| \n\n | |
| \ndont want to work | |
| a farmer | |
| a housewife with househol | |
| agricultural activities | |
| agricultural season | |
| also working on the farms | |
| apprenticeship | |
| arabic student | |
| as above | |
| assist parent on other do | |
| bakes bread | |
| because i have no skills | |
| because of illness. | |
| business lost in capital | |
| busy at farm land | |
| busy at the (faroo) | |
| busy at the farm | |
| busy at the farm and hous | |
| busy at the farm and rice | |
| busy at the farm land | |
| busy at the rice field | |
| busy at the rice field fa | |
| busy at the rice field or | |
| busy at the rice field/fa | |
| busy season | |
| busy the with rice filed | |
| busy with (faro) work | |
| busy with at the farm | |
| busy with farm work | |
| busy with farming | |
| busy with farming and hou | |
| busy with farming and ric | |
| busy with gardening and h | |
| busy with gerdening | |
| busy with house duties an | |
| busy with household dutie | |
| busy with househood dutie | |
| busy with the rice field | |
| busy working on the farms | |
| came here not long ago | |
| cannot do it | |
| cannot do more work now | |
| cannot do more work\n | |
| cant talk | |
| contract finished | |
| darra quran | |
| digging for GUWEHH\n | |
| digging of Nguwehh | |
| do not look for job | |
| do not want to work | |
| does only farming | |
| domestic work | |
| dont go to school | |
| dont want to work | |
| education | |
| education/ farming | |
| engaged at the rice field | |
| engaged in Faro Activitie | |
| engaged in farming activi | |
| engaging at the rice fiel | |
| engaging with farming | |
| fafarmer | |
| famer | |
| family care | |
| family reason | |
| family reason(to boost pr | |
| family reason\n | |
| family reasons | |
| family reson | |
| family reson\n | |
| family responsibilities | |
| faming | |
| faming only | |
| far,ing | |
| farer | |
| farm work | |
| farmer | |
| farmer\n | |
| farmig | |
| farmiing | |
| farmily | |
| farmimg | |
| farmin | |
| farming | |
| farming & gardening | |
| farming & homemaker | |
| farming \n | |
| farming and gardening | |
| farming and housewife | |
| farming mainly | |
| farming only | |
| farming only\n | |
| farming only\n\n | |
| farming season | |
| farming that all he do | |
| farming/ cattle rearing | |
| farming/gardening | |
| farming/housewife | |
| farming\n | |
| farming\n\n | |
| farming\n\n\n | |
| farmingfarming | |
| farminh | |
| farminng | |
| farmming | |
| farmng | |
| farmng only | |
| farner | |
| fatming | |
| ffarmer | |
| fishing | |
| frming | |
| frming\n | |
| from farm proceed | |
| from her farming | |
| from hi farming | |
| from his farming | |
| gardener | |
| gardening | |
| gardening purpose | |
| gardening/farming | |
| gardening\n | |
| gave birth a year ago | |
| goes to school | |
| going around to find job | |
| going to Arabic school | |
| going to school | |
| handicaped | |
| has no other job than far | |
| he didn't find a work bec | |
| he doesnt want to work. | |
| he his a farmer | |
| he is a farmer | |
| he is a student | |
| he is a talibeh | |
| he is doing apprentice jo | |
| he is into farming | |
| he is not feeling well, b | |
| he is old now | |
| he is unpaid farmer | |
| he was sarahule translate | |
| he was waiting for the m | |
| health condition | |
| health issue | |
| heis a farmer | |
| holidays | |
| house duty | |
| house wife | |
| house wife duties | |
| house wife\n | |
| household duties | |
| household responsibilitie | |
| housewife | |
| housewife\n | |
| houswife" | |
| i am a household wife, i | |
| i am a student | |
| i am a student going to s | |
| i am in retirement | |
| i am sick | |
| i am still a student | |
| i am still going to schoo | |
| i am still working as sec | |
| i did not find for work | |
| i didn't find a work, cur | |
| i do not look for a job, | |
| i don't even look for a w | |
| i don't know, i tried to | |
| i dont want to work for a | |
| i have no interest in wor | |
| i left the job to because | |
| i only have my small gard | |
| i only work in my rice fi | |
| i only work on my rice fi | |
| i told you earlier i don' | |
| ia s house wife | |
| illness | |
| illness\n | |
| immediate illness after s | |
| in dara | |
| in retiedment | |
| in school | |
| invisibe. she is married. | |
| invisible. she works on f | |
| invisible.\n | |
| is a hous wife | |
| is a house wife | |
| is going to school | |
| is staying overseas | |
| is working on the farms | |
| just busy with family iss | |
| just completed schooling | |
| just finish learnig quran | |
| just finish learning qura | |
| just graduate | |
| lack of education | |
| lack of education\n | |
| lack of eduction | |
| lack ofeducation | |
| larning | |
| larning" | |
| leaning quran | |
| learning | |
| learning quran | |
| learning quran\n | |
| loack of education | |
| loves farming | |
| low pay | |
| low saeson | |
| low season | |
| mainly a farmer | |
| mainly farmer | |
| mainly farming | |
| mainly on farming | |
| marabou | |
| marabout | |
| mariage | |
| marriage | |
| married | |
| married\n | |
| married\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n | |
| masonary | |
| mäinly farmer | |
| mäinly farming | |
| newly married | |
| no education | |
| no idea why | |
| no skils work\n only farm | |
| no working facilities | |
| none of the above | |
| not strong enough to do j | |
| not well | |
| nothing | |
| old | |
| old age | |
| old age | |
| old age do not want to wo | |
| old man | |
| old man now | |
| old now | |
| old to work | |
| old woman | |
| old woman\n | |
| oldage | |
| on farming | |
| on holidays | |
| only a farmer | |
| only farmig | |
| only farming | |
| only waiting for raining | |
| only works on the farms | |
| other household task | |
| owns a shop | |
| personal reason | |
| prefer farming | |
| prefers farming | |
| quaranic education | |
| quranic education | |
| quranic teacher | |
| raining season | |
| raining season i work on | |
| rainring | |
| rainy season | |
| rearing cattle | |
| restricted by family | |
| retired | |
| ricefield | |
| salary they are willing t | |
| school going but stop due | |
| schooling | |
| season | |
| seasonal change | |
| seasonal nature | |
| security reasons | |
| selling fish | |
| serving as badge messenge | |
| she farm because her co-w | |
| she is a farmer | |
| she is agardener | |
| she is attending school | |
| she is old | |
| she is too old | |
| she is very old. | |
| she just graduated | |
| sick | |
| sickness | |
| stay at home granny | |
| still finding | |
| still going to school | |
| still going to school\n | |
| still in school | |
| still learning quran | |
| still waiting for employ | |
| student | |
| student\n | |
| student\n\n\n | |
| supporting my father on | |
| teaching quran | |
| teaching the quran | |
| time | |
| to help family | |
| too hard\n | |
| too old | |
| too old to work | |
| too young | |
| too young and lack of edu | |
| training | |
| travel\n | |
| unpaid farmer on husband' | |
| unpaid worker on father's | |
| unpaid worker on househol | |
| unpaid worker on husband' | |
| waiting for busy season | |
| waiting for busy season\n | |
| waiting for respondent | |
| waiting for result | |
| want to start business | |
| want to travel | |
| wants to farm | |
| was born farming | |
| was on exams | |
| was sick | |
| wating for busy season | |
| when his dad died that's | |
| workin on farm | |
| working on family farm | |
| working on farm | |
| working on farm\n | |
| working on my farm | |
| working on my farm\n | |
| working on myfarm | |
| working on the farm | |
| working on the farms | |
| workingon farm | |
| workingon\nfarm\n | |
| workinh on farm | |
| works as house wife | |
| works on spouse carm | |
| works only on the farms | |
| young | |
| young to find work |
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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UB5 OTHER
Imputation and derivation
Imputation
UB5 OTHER
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UB5 OTHER