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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Feb 20, 2026

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Data file: qlfs-2025-q4-v1

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Valid: 135

Minimum: 1

Maximum: 9

Mean: 3.1259259259259

Standard deviation: 2.1385921915214

Type: Discrete

Width: 16

Format: Numeric

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Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Scholar or student	22	16.3%
2	Housewife/homemaker (Family considerations/Child care)	44	32.6%
3	Health reasons	38	28.1%
4	Retied /too old to work	8	5.9%
5	No desire to work	7	5.2%
6	Too young to work	2	1.5%
7	Pregnancy	1	0.7%
8	Disabled or unable to work	5	3.7%
9	Other	8	5.9%

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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