Quarterly Labour Force Survey 2025, Quarter 4

South Africa, 2025

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zaf-statssa-qlfs-2025-q4-v1

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https://doi.org/10.25828/8ya9-3j92

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South African Labour Force Survey Data

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Contract period (Q412ACONTRPERIOD)

Data file: qlfs-2025-q4-v1

Overview

Valid: 2117

Minimum: 1

Maximum: 9

Mean: 6.2409069437884

Standard deviation: 2.0709459974882

Type: Discrete

Width: 16

Format: Numeric

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Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Hourly contract / agreement	88	4.2%
2	Daily contract/ agreement	123	5.8%
3	Less than one month	34	1.6%
4	1 to less than 3 months	109	5.1%
5	3 to less than 6 months	212	10%
6	6 months to less than 12 months	413	19.5%
7	12 months to less than 24 months	517	24.4%
8	Two years or more no specified duration	406	19.2%
9	Unspecified	215	10.2%

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.

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