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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Status in employment by type of authority-5 main categories, (ICSE-18) (Ste_icse18_authority)

Data file: qlfs-2025-q4-v1

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Valid: 15839

Minimum: 1

Maximum: 5

Mean: 3.6232085358924

Standard deviation: 0.85689335944513

Type: Discrete

Width: 16

Format: Numeric

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Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Employers	778	4.9%
2	Own-account workers	1582	10%
3	Dependent contractors	509	3.2%
4	Employees	12931	81.6%
5	Contributing family workers	39	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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