Post-Apartheid Socio-Economic Series 1995-2024

South Africa, 1995 - 2024

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zaf-df-pases-1995-2024-v1.1

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Andrew Kerr, Amy Thornton, Martin Wittenberg

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DataFirst - Harmonised Dataset Series

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Nov 21, 2025

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Jul 17, 2026

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labour market status: narrow (DERIVED) (empstat1)

Data file: pasesv1.1

Overview

Valid: 1593050

Invalid: 855000

Minimum: 0

Maximum: 2

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

loc_start_pos: 258

loc_end_pos: 258

Width: 1

Range: 0 - 2

Format: Numeric

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Value	Category	Cases
0	0. NEA	774717	48.6%
1	1. Employed	607575	38.1%
2	2. Unemployed	210758	13.2%
Sysmiss		855000

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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