Quarterly Labour Force Survey 2025, Quarter 4

South Africa, 2025

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zaf-statssa-qlfs-2025-q4-v1

DOI

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

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South African Labour Force Survey Data

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Employment status detailed (Lfs_Status)

Data file: qlfs-2025-q4-v1

Overview

Valid: 46032

Minimum: 1

Maximum: 6

Mean: 3.3735010427529

Standard deviation: 2.2394774406802

Type: Discrete

Width: 16

Format: Numeric

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Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Employed	15839	34.4%
2	Unemployed	7292	15.8%
3	Discouraged jobseekers	3575	7.8%
4	Available jobseekers	886	1.9%
5	Unavailable jobseekers	43	0.1%
6	Other outside the labour force	18397	40%

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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