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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Oct 01, 2025

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Unemployment status (Unempl_Status)

Data file: qlfs-2025-q2-v1

Overview

Valid: 30938

Invalid: 34505

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

loc_start_pos: 234

loc_end_pos: 234

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 5

Format: Numeric

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Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Job loser	2084	6.7%
2	Job leaver	251	0.8%
3	New entrant	16435	53.1%
4	Re-entrant	2618	8.5%
5	Other - last worked >5 years ago	9550	30.9%
Sysmiss		34505

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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