Quarterly Labour Force Survey 2025, Quarter 2

South Africa, 2025

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zaf-statssa-qlfs-2025-q2-v1

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South African Labour Force Survey Data

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Oct 01, 2025

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Data file: qlfs-2025-q2-v1

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Valid: 18446

Invalid: 46997

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

loc_start_pos: 57

loc_end_pos: 57

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 9

Format: Numeric

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Value	Category	Cases
1	Scholar or student	6780	36.8%
2	Housewife/homemaker (family considerations/child care)	2251	12.2%
3	Health reasons	1137	6.2%
4	Retired or too old for work	6758	36.6%
5	No desire to work	303	1.6%
6	Too young to work	117	0.6%
7	Pregnancy	44	0.2%
8	Disabled or unable to work	488	2.6%
9	Unspecified	568	3.1%
Sysmiss		46997

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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