Migrant Health Follow-Up Study Wave 02 (MHFUS)
South Africa, 2019 - 2020
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Reference ID
MHFUS.W2.2025
Producer(s)
Prof. Michael J White, Dr. Carren Ginsburg, Prof. Mark Collinson, Prof F. Xavier Gómez-Olivé, Prof. Steve Tollman
Metadata
Created on
Jan 13, 2026
Last modified
Jan 20, 2026
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- MHFUS_W2_DATASET
W2_emp_type (W2_emp_type)
Data file: MHFUS_W2_DATASET
Overview
Valid:
1376
Invalid:
0
Type:
Discrete
Width:
52
Range:
-
Format:
character
Questions and instructions
Categories
| Value | Category | Cases | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Art, craft, photography, fashion design | 4 |
0.3%
|
|
| Artisan (e.g. carpenter, wood carver, weaver) | 40 |
2.9%
|
|
| Cattle herder | 4 |
0.3%
|
|
| Cleaning work | 56 |
4.1%
|
|
| Clerical and office work | 32 |
2.3%
|
|
| Construction work | 100 |
7.3%
|
|
| Cook/ chef/ catering | 30 |
2.2%
|
|
| Domestic work | 36 |
2.6%
|
|
| Dont know | 2 |
0.1%
|
|
| Driver | 101 |
7.3%
|
|
| Farm work | 23 |
1.7%
|
|
| Fieldworker - NGO or university | 8 |
0.6%
|
|
| Game farm/game reserve (e.g. ranger) | 46 |
3.3%
|
|
| Gardening services | 13 |
0.9%
|
|
| Health sector (formal) | 40 |
2.9%
|
|
| Mine work | 64 |
4.7%
|
|
| Other | 163 |
11.8%
|
|
| Petrol attendant | 4 |
0.3%
|
|
| Police, soldier, fireman | 13 |
0.9%
|
|
| Priest/pastor | 2 |
0.1%
|
|
| Retail/clerk/sales | 144 |
10.5%
|
|
| Security work | 92 |
6.7%
|
|
| Senior administrator, manager, professional | 52 |
3.8%
|
|
| Sewing, hairdressing, baking, brewing | 13 |
0.9%
|
|
| Skilled worker (e.g. plumber, mechanic, electrician) | 114 |
8.3%
|
|
| Small business assistant | 8 |
0.6%
|
|
| Small business owner | 38 |
2.8%
|
|
| Student | 6 |
0.4%
|
|
| Teacher | 23 |
1.7%
|
|
| Timber, sawmill, poles | 10 |
0.7%
|
|
| Traditional healer | 7 |
0.5%
|
|
| Unskilled worker (e.g. general labourer) | 56 |
4.1%
|
|
| Waiter/ barman | 32 |
2.3%
|
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.