Quarterly Labour Force Survey 2025, Quarter 1

South Africa, 2025

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South African Labour Force Survey Data

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May 13, 2025

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Unemployment status (Unempl_Status)

Data file: qlfs-2025-q1-worker-v1

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Valid: 31342

Invalid: 35087

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Width: 16

Range: 1 - 5

Format: Numeric

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Value	Category	Cases
1	Job loser	2210	7.1%
2	Job leaver	228	0.7%
3	New entrant	16836	53.7%
4	Re-entrant	2711	8.6%
5	Other - last worked >5 years ago	9357	29.9%
Sysmiss		35087

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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