Quarterly Labour Force Survey 2025, Quarter 2

South Africa, 2025

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zaf-statssa-qlfs-2025-q2-v1

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Statistics South Africa

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Labour Force Survey and Quarterly Labour Force Survey

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Oct 01, 2025

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How long been trying to find work (Q36TIMESEEK)

Data file: qlfs-2025-q2-v1

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Valid: 8151

Invalid: 57292

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

loc_start_pos: 58

loc_end_pos: 58

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 8

Format: Numeric

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Value	Category	Cases
1	Less than 3 months	821	10.1%
2	3 months - less than 6 months	538	6.6%
3	6 months - less than 9 months	313	3.8%
4	9 months - less than 1 year	316	3.9%
5	1 year - less than 3 years	1486	18.2%
6	3 years - 5 years	1038	12.7%
7	More than 5 years	3616	44.4%
8	Do not know	23	0.3%
Sysmiss		57292

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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