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: 18304

Minimum: 1

Maximum: 9

Mean: 2.8667504370629

Standard deviation: 1.9272118352435

Type: Discrete

Width: 16

Format: Numeric

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Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Scholar or student	6790	37.1%
2	Housewife/homemaker (family considerations/child care)	2124	11.6%
3	Health reasons	1158	6.3%
4	Retired or too old for work	6748	36.9%
5	No desire to work	359	2%
6	Too young to work	120	0.7%
7	Pregnancy	39	0.2%
8	Disabled or unable to work	513	2.8%
9	Unspecified	453	2.5%

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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