Post Apartheid Labour Market Series 1993-2025
South Africa, 1993 - 2025
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Reference ID
zaf-df-palms-1993-2025-v4
Producer(s)
Andrew Kerr, David Lam, Martin Wittenberg
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Sep 05, 2013
Last modified
Nov 24, 2025
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highest education level, ohss only (educhigh0)
Data file: palmsv4
Overview
Valid:
661405
Invalid:
6786155
Minimum:
0
Maximum:
26
Type:
Discrete
Decimal:
0
loc_start_pos:
75
loc_end_pos:
76
Width:
2
Range:
0 - 26
Format:
Numeric
Questions and instructions
Categories
| Value | Category | Cases | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | 0. no schooling | 160813 |
24.3%
|
| 1 | 1. grade 0 | 4161 |
0.6%
|
| 2 | 2. grade 1 | 10232 |
1.5%
|
| 3 | 3. grade 2 | 12248 |
1.9%
|
| 4 | 4. grade 3 | 19655 |
3%
|
| 5 | 5. grade 1/grade 2/grade 3 (ohs 94-95) | 29452 |
4.5%
|
| 6 | 6. grade 4 | 36101 |
5.5%
|
| 7 | 7. grade 5 | 35317 |
5.3%
|
| 8 | 8. grade 6 | 39256 |
5.9%
|
| 9 | 9. grade 7 | 45892 |
6.9%
|
| 10 | 10. grade 8 | 52803 |
8%
|
| 11 | 11. grade 9 | 37862 |
5.7%
|
| 12 | 12. grade 10 | 12100 |
1.8%
|
| 13 | 13. grade 11 | 8649 |
1.3%
|
| 14 | 14. grade 12 | 17704 |
2.7%
|
| 15 | 15. grade 10/ntc i | 36499 |
5.5%
|
| 16 | 16. grade 11/ntc ii | 24037 |
3.6%
|
| 17 | 17. grade 12/ntc iii | 47974 |
7.3%
|
| 18 | 18. ntc i | 219 |
0%
|
| 19 | 19. ntc ii | 166 |
0%
|
| 20 | 20. ntc iii | 432 |
0.1%
|
| 21 | 21. certificate or diploma with less than grade 12 | 3135 |
0.5%
|
| 22 | 22. certificate or diploma with grade 12 | 17194 |
2.6%
|
| 23 | 23. undergraduate degree | 3186 |
0.5%
|
| 24 | 24. post-graduate degree | 949 |
0.1%
|
| 25 | 25. degree (undergrad or postgrad) | 4900 |
0.7%
|
| 26 | 26. other | 469 |
0.1%
|
| Sysmiss | 6786155 |
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.