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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Data file: qlfs-2025-q2-v1

Overview

Valid: 16195

Invalid: 49248

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

loc_start_pos: 237

loc_end_pos: 238

Width: 2

Range: 1 - 10

Format: Numeric

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Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Legislators; senior officials and managers	1323	8.2%
2	Professionals	837	5.2%
3	Technical and associate professionals	1466	9.1%
4	Clerks	1688	10.4%
5	Service workers and shop and market sales workers	2829	17.5%
6	Skilled agricultural and fishery workers	58	0.4%
7	Craft and related trades workers	1764	10.9%
8	Plant and machine operators and assemblers	1284	7.9%
9	Elementary Occupation	4043	25%
10	Domestic workers	903	5.6%
Sysmiss		49248

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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