AHRI.HDSS.Core Dataset:Migrations
South Africa, 2000 - 2018
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AHRI.RD01-14.ACDIS.Migrations
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Kobus Herbst
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Apr 17, 2026
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RD01-14 ACDIS
Migrations
Reason for Migration coded (MigrationReasonCode)
Data file: RD01-14 ACDIS Migrations
Overview
Valid:
345238
Invalid:
0
Type:
Discrete
Decimal:
0
Width:
12
Range:
1 - 999
Format:
Numeric
Questions and instructions
Categories
| Value | Category | Cases | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Accommodation | 107633 |
31.2%
|
| 2 | Built or bought house | 13153 |
3.8%
|
| 3 | Changed rented accommodation | 8044 |
2.3%
|
| 4 | Household formation | 1374 |
0.4%
|
| 5 | Education | 8455 |
2.4%
|
| 6 | Schooling | 21289 |
6.2%
|
| 7 | Finished School | 4714 |
1.4%
|
| 8 | Left School | 492 |
0.1%
|
| 9 | Employment | 11094 |
3.2%
|
| 10 | Searching | 6341 |
1.8%
|
| 11 | Changed jobs | 3133 |
0.9%
|
| 12 | Transfer | 276 |
0.1%
|
| 13 | Left Employment | 12161 |
3.5%
|
| 14 | Left employment as a domestic worker | 756 |
0.2%
|
| 15 | To be near place of work | 24602 |
7.1%
|
| 16 | To look after a Bounded Structure | 1056 |
0.3%
|
| 17 | Violence or conflict | 81 |
0%
|
| 18 | Domestic violence or disagreement | 286 |
0.1%
|
| 19 | Victim or fear of crime | 183 |
0.1%
|
| 20 | Perpetrator of crime | 24 |
0%
|
| 21 | Prison | 346 |
0.1%
|
| 22 | Faction fights | 29 |
0%
|
| 23 | Health | 97 |
0%
|
| 24 | Sickness | 1054 |
0.3%
|
| 25 | Well | 1002 |
0.3%
|
| 26 | Prevention | 6 |
0%
|
| 27 | Marriage or conjugal relationships | 910 |
0.3%
|
| 28 | Start of new marriage or conjugal partnership | 905 |
0.3%
|
| 29 | Split | 548 |
0.2%
|
| 30 | To be close to a spouse or a partner | 2743 |
0.8%
|
| 31 | Pregnancy | 88 |
0%
|
| 32 | Came to destination for delivery | 192 |
0.1%
|
| 33 | Return to usual place after of residence delivery | 80 |
0%
|
| 34 | Caring | 3002 |
0.9%
|
| 35 | To care for someone | 737 |
0.2%
|
| 36 | To be cared for | 23722 |
6.9%
|
| 37 | Was caring for someone | 295 |
0.1%
|
| 38 | Traditional Healing | 208 |
0.1%
|
| 93 | Dont Know or No Reason given | 3307 |
1%
|
| 95 | Default | 9031 |
2.6%
|
| 96 | Other | 10512 |
3%
|
| 97 | Not Applicable | 61277 |
17.7%
|
| 999 | Unknown | 0 |
0%
|
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.