Migrant Health Follow-Up Study Wave 02 (MHFUS)
South Africa, 2019 - 2020
Get Microdata
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
Page views
2778
- Data files
- MHFUS_W2_DATASET
W2_h05_occ (W2_h05_occ)
Data file: MHFUS_W2_DATASET
Overview
Valid:
605
Invalid:
0
Type:
Discrete
Width:
45
Range:
-
Format:
character
Questions and instructions
Categories
| Value | Category | Cases | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Construction work | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| Driver | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| Fieldworker - NGO or university | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| Game farm/game reserve (e.g. ranger) | 2 |
0.3%
|
|
| Mine work | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| None/Unemployed (do not receive social grant) | 136 |
22.5%
|
|
| None/Unemployed (receive social grant) | 457 |
75.5%
|
|
| Other | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| Retail/clerk/sales | 2 |
0.3%
|
|
| Security work | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| Student | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| Unskilled worker (e.g. general labourer) | 1 |
0.2%
|
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.