Quarterly Labour Force Survey 2025, Quarter 4
South Africa, 2025
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Study field (Q18FIELD)
Data file: qlfs-2025-q4-v1
Overview
Valid:
5861
Minimum:
1
Maximum:
38
Mean:
11.54393448217
Standard deviation:
9.2652967041267
Type:
Discrete
Width:
16
Format:
Numeric
Questions and instructions
Categories
| Value | Category | Cases | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Agriculture or Renewable natural resources | 78 |
1.3%
|
| 2 | Architecture or environmental design | 61 |
1%
|
| 3 | Arts; Visual or Performing | 98 |
1.7%
|
| 4 | Business; commerce and management studies | 1247 |
21.3%
|
| 5 | Communication | 105 |
1.8%
|
| 6 | Computer science | 183 |
3.1%
|
| 7 | Education; training or development | 1037 |
17.7%
|
| 8 | Engineering or engineering technology | 700 |
11.9%
|
| 9 | Health care or health sciences | 572 |
9.8%
|
| 10 | Home economics | 37 |
0.6%
|
| 11 | Industrial arts; traders or technology | 65 |
1.1%
|
| 12 | Languages; linguistic or literature | 11 |
0.2%
|
| 13 | Law | 163 |
2.8%
|
| 14 | Libraries or museums | 14 |
0.2%
|
| 15 | Life sciences or physical sciences | 49 |
0.8%
|
| 16 | Mathematical sciences | 13 |
0.2%
|
| 17 | Military sciences | 13 |
0.2%
|
| 18 | Philosophy; religion or theology | 43 |
0.7%
|
| 19 | Physical education or leisure | 16 |
0.3%
|
| 20 | Psychology | 61 |
1%
|
| 21 | Public administration or social services | 83 |
1.4%
|
| 22 | Social sciences or social studies | 35 |
0.6%
|
| 23 | Other | 196 |
3.3%
|
| 24 | Management | 145 |
2.5%
|
| 25 | Marketing | 74 |
1.3%
|
| 26 | Information technology and computer science | 107 |
1.8%
|
| 27 | Finance; economics and accounting | 163 |
2.8%
|
| 28 | Office administration | 65 |
1.1%
|
| 29 | Electrical infrastructure construction | 92 |
1.6%
|
| 30 | Civil engineering and building construction | 24 |
0.4%
|
| 31 | Engineering | 76 |
1.3%
|
| 32 | Primary agriculture | 4 |
0.1%
|
| 33 | Hospitality | 29 |
0.5%
|
| 34 | Tourism | 26 |
0.4%
|
| 35 | Safety in society | 45 |
0.8%
|
| 36 | Mechatronics | 7 |
0.1%
|
| 37 | Education and development | 53 |
0.9%
|
| 38 | Other | 71 |
1.2%
|
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.