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 economic risk, (ICSE-18) (Ste_icse18_risk)

Data file: qlfs-2025-q4-v1

Overview

Valid: 15839

Minimum: 1

Maximum: 5

Mean: 4.3454763558305

Standard deviation: 1.4285516368228

Type: Discrete

Width: 16

Format: Numeric

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Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Independent workers in household market enterprises	2134	13.5%
2	Dependent contractors	509	3.2%
3	Contributing family workers	39	0.2%
4	Owner-operators of corporations	226	1.4%
5	Employees	12931	81.6%

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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