Quarterly Labour Force Survey 2025, Quarter 2

South Africa, 2025

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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: 4953

Invalid: 60490

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

loc_start_pos: 68

loc_end_pos: 69

Width: 2

Range: 1 - 10

Format: Numeric

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Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Health reason	195	3.9%
2	Caring for own children/relatives	47	0.9%
3	Pregnancy	54	1.1%
4	Other family/community responsibilities	33	0.7%
5	Going to school	41	0.8%
6	Lost job/job ended/laid off/business sold/closed down	3818	77.1%
7	Changed residence	53	1.1%
8	Dissatisfied with the job	216	4.4%
9	Retired/ too old to work	375	7.6%
10	Other	121	2.4%
Sysmiss		60490

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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