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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Data file: qlfs-2025-q4-v1

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Valid: 4626

Minimum: 1

Maximum: 11

Mean: 6.8389537397319

Standard deviation: 2.5060799812996

Type: Discrete

Width: 16

Format: Numeric

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Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Legislators; senior officials and managers	128	2.8%
2	Professionals	125	2.7%
3	Technical and associate professionals	243	5.3%
4	Clerks	417	9%
5	Service workers and shop and market sales workers	874	18.9%
6	Skilled agricultural and fishery workers	20	0.4%
7	Craft and related trades workers	575	12.4%
8	Plant and machine operators and assemblers	263	5.7%
9	Elementary Occupation	1577	34.1%
10	Domestic workers	394	8.5%
11	Other	10	0.2%

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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