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 reason absent from work (Q27RSNABSENT)

Data file: qlfs-20250-03

Overview

Valid: 341

Minimum: 1

Maximum: 15

Mean: 6.3636363636364

Standard deviation: 5.2156182564286

Type: Discrete

Width: 16

Format: Numeric

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Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Health reasons (sic kness, illness, accident)	26	7.6%
2	Vacation leave, holi days	141	41.3%
3	Caring for family or other (except matern ity/paternity leave)	3	0.9%
4	Maternity or patern ity leave	28	8.2%
5	Other family/comm unity obligations (fun erals, meeting)	5	1.5%
8	Bad weather, natural disaster	4	1.2%
11	Temporarily laid off/reduction in economic activity	70	20.5%
12	Seasonal work (low or off-season)	10	2.9%
13	Start a new job/busi ness at a definite date in the future	8	2.3%
15	Other reason, specify	46	13.5%

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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