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Table 6.4: The relationship between occupation and education level per household head
of urban U1undi in 2007
Occupation
types
Never
been to
school
Primary
school
education I
I
I I
Left
primary
school
before
finishing
High
School
level-
Matric
Left High
School
before
finishing
Tertiary
edUcatiOD
Left
tertiary
Freq.
education
Total
before
finishing I
Teacher I I I 4 I 52 3 60
Nurse i I I 3 I I 13 I I 19
,
Police i I 2 2 I 18 I
23
• ,
Doctor .
I
I I 2 I 3
, ,
Lawyer I i 4 4
; i !
Manager I I I I 5 i 7
, I I
Adm. Clerk ; I 18 I 10 I I 28
I
Driver I I I
Domestic
worker
4 5 2
; ,
2 4
I
I
I
·
I
,
I
,
!
I
2
1
2
1
I
i
1
, I
I
I I
I ,
,
15
I
4
Artisan I ! I i I
Community
work
I
i I , ,
Politician I ! I I 2 i 3
Unemployed I i 2 ; 3 ! i
,
5
; Se1f- j ;
,
10 6 3 15 5 2 I 42
employed i ,
Accountant •
i
Other 12 3
Farmer I ;
Total 28 17 •
·
7
2 I I 2
• I 5
18 4 • 6 7 I 50
I
I
I
I 3
! 74 16 121 13 276
Ulundi and its surrounding rural areas are subsistence in orientation and have little formal
training in agriculture. Few professionals like doctors. lawyers. managers and accountants
operate in Ulundi since they require a relatively high threshold population to sustain their
businesses.
Table 6.5 demonstrates the chi-square tests on the level of education and the types of
occupation of household heads of Ulundi in 2007. In testing for the relationship bemeen
occupation types of household heads and their respective levels of education. a chi-square
result of59.132 with a significance level of0.00 (i.e.. less than 0.05). was obtained indicating
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