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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Main reason absent from work (Q27RSNABSENT)

Data file: qlfs-2025-q4-v1

Overview

Valid: 211

Minimum: 1

Maximum: 15

Mean: 6.1706161137441

Standard deviation: 4.8745489754268

Type: Discrete

Width: 16

Format: Numeric

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Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Health reasons (sic kness, illness, accident)	15	7.1%
2	Vacation leave, holi days	77	36.5%
3	Caring for family or other (except matern ity/paternity leave)	4	1.9%
4	Maternity or patern ity leave	26	12.3%
5	Other family/comm unity obligations (fun erals, meeting)	8	3.8%
8	Bad weather, natural disaster	1	0.5%
9	Study or training leave	1	0.5%
11	Temporarily laid off/reduction in economic activity	51	24.2%
12	Seasonal work (low or off-season)	7	3.3%
15	Other reason, specify	21	10%

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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