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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- Data files
- MHFUS_W2_DATASET
W2_emp_type2 (W2_emp_type2)
Data file: MHFUS_W2_DATASET
Overview
Valid:
163
Invalid:
0
Type:
Discrete
Width:
40
Range:
-
Format:
character
Questions and instructions
Categories
| Value | Category | Cases | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Admin clerk | 1 |
0.6%
|
|
| Administration | 1 |
0.6%
|
|
| Assistance in electrical | 1 |
0.6%
|
|
| Auditor | 1 |
0.6%
|
|
| Bakery | 1 |
0.6%
|
|
| Bank teller | 2 |
1.2%
|
|
| Beauty therapist | 3 |
1.8%
|
|
| Blushing penda | 1 |
0.6%
|
|
| Boiler maker | 1 |
0.6%
|
|
| Buker | 1 |
0.6%
|
|
| CWP | 3 |
1.8%
|
|
| Call centre | 1 |
0.6%
|
|
| Car Mechanic | 1 |
0.6%
|
|
| Car wash | 2 |
1.2%
|
|
| Care giver | 1 |
0.6%
|
|
| Caregiver | 2 |
1.2%
|
|
| Carwash | 1 |
0.6%
|
|
| Cashier | 3 |
1.8%
|
|
| Childcare | 1 |
0.6%
|
|
| Chreche | 1 |
0.6%
|
|
| Civil engineering | 1 |
0.6%
|
|
| Cleaning steels | 1 |
0.6%
|
|
| Community outreach | 1 |
0.6%
|
|
| Concrete | 1 |
0.6%
|
|
| Cooking at school | 1 |
0.6%
|
|
| Crew escort | 1 |
0.6%
|
|
| Data scientist | 2 |
1.2%
|
|
| Dimond drilling | 1 |
0.6%
|
|
| Engineering | 2 |
1.2%
|
|
| Fan load operator | 1 |
0.6%
|
|
| Field ranger | 1 |
0.6%
|
|
| Fieldwork | 2 |
1.2%
|
|
| Financial accountant | 1 |
0.6%
|
|
| Fire fighter | 1 |
0.6%
|
|
| Firm work | 1 |
0.6%
|
|
| Food and beverage | 1 |
0.6%
|
|
| Food handler | 1 |
0.6%
|
|
| Foreman assistant | 1 |
0.6%
|
|
| Forklift operator | 2 |
1.2%
|
|
| Fundraiser at Savana home basecare | 1 |
0.6%
|
|
| Guest House | 2 |
1.2%
|
|
| Hair dresser | 2 |
1.2%
|
|
| Host manager | 1 |
0.6%
|
|
| House keeper | 3 |
1.8%
|
|
| Housekeeping | 1 |
0.6%
|
|
| Human Resource internship | 1 |
0.6%
|
|
| IT | 2 |
1.2%
|
|
| IT Specialist | 1 |
0.6%
|
|
| IT Technician | 1 |
0.6%
|
|
| IT specialist | 1 |
0.6%
|
|
| In skilled mechanic | 1 |
0.6%
|
|
| Ingeneering | 1 |
0.6%
|
|
| Internal control | 1 |
0.6%
|
|
| Internship | 2 |
1.2%
|
|
| It | 1 |
0.6%
|
|
| Jeweller | 1 |
0.6%
|
|
| Journalism | 1 |
0.6%
|
|
| Laundry | 3 |
1.8%
|
|
| Law enforcement officer | 1 |
0.6%
|
|
| Leadership | 1 |
0.6%
|
|
| Learnership | 1 |
0.6%
|
|
| Learnership (game farm ranger) | 1 |
0.6%
|
|
| Learnership (plumbing) | 1 |
0.6%
|
|
| Learnership program | 1 |
0.6%
|
|
| Lecture | 1 |
0.6%
|
|
| Legal assistant | 1 |
0.6%
|
|
| Loan shak | 1 |
0.6%
|
|
| Logistics | 2 |
1.2%
|
|
| Machine operator | 2 |
1.2%
|
|
| Maintenance | 6 |
3.7%
|
|
| Making collumns | 1 |
0.6%
|
|
| Manager | 1 |
0.6%
|
|
| Marketing | 1 |
0.6%
|
|
| Mechanical engineering | 1 |
0.6%
|
|
| Monitoring team at taxi industry | 1 |
0.6%
|
|
| Municipality | 1 |
0.6%
|
|
| Nanny | 1 |
0.6%
|
|
| Operater | 1 |
0.6%
|
|
| Operatior | 1 |
0.6%
|
|
| Operator | 4 |
2.5%
|
|
| Operator at mine | 1 |
0.6%
|
|
| Own transport company | 1 |
0.6%
|
|
| Packer | 1 |
0.6%
|
|
| Packing logs | 1 |
0.6%
|
|
| Painting | 2 |
1.2%
|
|
| Penal beater | 1 |
0.6%
|
|
| Photographer | 1 |
0.6%
|
|
| Picker | 1 |
0.6%
|
|
| Plastic packaging | 1 |
0.6%
|
|
| Plumbing | 1 |
0.6%
|
|
| Police | 1 |
0.6%
|
|
| Probation officer | 1 |
0.6%
|
|
| Process controller | 1 |
0.6%
|
|
| Project manager at eskom | 1 |
0.6%
|
|
| Rand water | 1 |
0.6%
|
|
| Receptionist | 4 |
2.5%
|
|
| Refuse to answer | 1 |
0.6%
|
|
| Refused to answer | 1 |
0.6%
|
|
| Reinforcing | 1 |
0.6%
|
|
| Research and development | 1 |
0.6%
|
|
| Restaurant | 1 |
0.6%
|
|
| Riger (Vodacom and MTN) | 1 |
0.6%
|
|
| Safety officer | 1 |
0.6%
|
|
| Sandlatersin | 1 |
0.6%
|
|
| Scaffolding | 1 |
0.6%
|
|
| Scalery assistant | 1 |
0.6%
|
|
| Scanner | 1 |
0.6%
|
|
| Self controller | 1 |
0.6%
|
|
| Selling firewood | 1 |
0.6%
|
|
| Social development | 1 |
0.6%
|
|
| Social worker | 2 |
1.2%
|
|
| Supervisor | 1 |
0.6%
|
|
| Supervisor at pg glasses | 1 |
0.6%
|
|
| Supervisor at warehouse | 1 |
0.6%
|
|
| Tack shop | 1 |
0.6%
|
|
| Teacher at chreche | 1 |
0.6%
|
|
| Technician at eskom | 1 |
0.6%
|
|
| Telecommunication | 1 |
0.6%
|
|
| Warehouse | 1 |
0.6%
|
|
| Warehouse assistant | 1 |
0.6%
|
|
| Warehouse job | 2 |
1.2%
|
|
| Warehouse picker | 1 |
0.6%
|
|
| Water care technician | 1 |
0.6%
|
|
| Water proofing | 1 |
0.6%
|
|
| Woken for water | 1 |
0.6%
|
|
| house keeping, scallering or public area | 1 |
0.6%
|
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.