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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StatsSA official employment status (narrow) (ssa_empstat1)

Data file: pasesv1.1

Overview

Valid: 1186471

Invalid: 1261579

Minimum: 0

Maximum: 9

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

loc_start_pos: 270

loc_end_pos: 270

Width: 1

Range: 0 - 9

Format: Numeric

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Value	Category	Cases
0	0. Not Economically Active (1999-2008)	286061	24.1%
1	1. Employed	368178	31%
2	2. Unemployed	146669	12.4%
3	3. Not Economically Active (2014-2018)	0	0%
8	8. Not Applicable (2014-2018)	185843	15.7%
9	9. Unspecified (2014-2018)	199720	16.8%
Sysmiss		1261579

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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