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/ Quarterly Labour Force Survey/ Labour Market Dynamics in South Africa

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Data file: qlfs-2025-q2-v1

Overview

Valid: 4953

Invalid: 60490

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

loc_start_pos: 223

loc_end_pos: 224

Width: 2

Range: 1 - 10

Format: Numeric

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Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Legislators; senior officials and managers	121	2.4%
2	Professionals	131	2.6%
3	Technical and associate professionals	248	5%
4	Clerks	461	9.3%
5	Service workers and shop and market sales workers	916	18.5%
6	Skilled agricultural and fishery workers	28	0.6%
7	Craft and related trades workers	604	12.2%
8	Plant and machine operators and assemblers	312	6.3%
9	Elementary Occupation	1745	35.2%
10	Domestic workers	387	7.8%
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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