Quarterly Labour Force Survey 2025, Quarter 3

South Africa, 2025

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zaf-statssa-qlfs-2025-q3-v1

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https://doi.org/10.25828/79sm-em79

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South African Labour Force Survey Data

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Dec 19, 2025

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Main occupation grouped (Occup)

Data file: qlfs-20250-03

Overview

Valid: 16006

Minimum: 1

Maximum: 11

Mean: 6.0188679245283

Standard deviation: 2.7506870788242

Type: Discrete

Width: 16

Format: Numeric

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Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Legislators; senior officials and managers	1216	7.6%
2	Professionals	768	4.8%
3	Technical and associate professionals	1341	8.4%
4	Clerks	1675	10.5%
5	Service workers and shop and market sales workers	2942	18.4%
6	Skilled agricultural and fishery workers	109	0.7%
7	Craft and related trades workers	1860	11.6%
8	Plant and machine operators and assemblers	1290	8.1%
9	Elementary Occupation	3912	24.4%
10	Domestic workers	872	5.4%
11	Other	21	0.1%

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.

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