Post-Apartheid Socio-Economic Series 1995-2024

South Africa, 1995 - 2024

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zaf-df-pases-1995-2024--v1

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Andrew Kerr, Amy Thornton, Martin Wittenberg

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DataFirst - Harmonised SA Dataset Series

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Nov 21, 2025

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employment: formal sector status (sector)

Data file: pasesv1

Overview

Valid: 1034642

Invalid: 1413408

Minimum: 1

Maximum: 9

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

loc_start_pos: 239

loc_end_pos: 239

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 9

Format: Numeric

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Value	Category	Cases
1	1. in the formal sector (registered to perform activity)	214819	20.8%
2	2. in the informal sector (not registered to perform activit	57083	5.5%
3	3. do not know	2601	0.3%
8	8. not applicable	705153	68.2%
9	9. unspecified	54986	5.3%
Sysmiss		1413408

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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