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
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highest level of education, lfs only (educhigh1)
Data file: palmsv4
Overview
Valid:
1628231
Invalid:
5819329
Minimum:
0
Maximum:
99
Type:
Discrete
Decimal:
0
loc_start_pos:
77
loc_end_pos:
78
Width:
2
Range:
0 - 99
Format:
Numeric
Questions and instructions
Categories
| Value | Category | Cases | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | 0. no schooling | 312757 |
19.2%
|
| 1 | 1. grade r/0 | 50846 |
3.1%
|
| 2 | 2. sub a/grade 1 | 51000 |
3.1%
|
| 3 | 3. sub b/grade 2 | 55902 |
3.4%
|
| 4 | 4. grade 3/standard 1 | 71475 |
4.4%
|
| 5 | 5. grade 4/standard 2 | 79567 |
4.9%
|
| 6 | 6. grade 5/standard 3 | 82367 |
5.1%
|
| 7 | 7. grade 6/standard 4 | 94099 |
5.8%
|
| 8 | 8. grade 7/standard 5 | 114278 |
7%
|
| 9 | 9. grade 8/standard 6/form 1 | 121704 |
7.5%
|
| 10 | 10. grade 9/standard 7/form 2 | 104307 |
6.4%
|
| 11 | 11. grade 10/standard 8/form 3 | 116821 |
7.2%
|
| 12 | 12. grade 11/standard 9/form 4 | 91473 |
5.6%
|
| 13 | 13. grade 12/standard 10/form 5/matric | 190484 |
11.7%
|
| 14 | 14. ntc l | 1399 |
0.1%
|
| 15 | 15. ntc ii | 1171 |
0.1%
|
| 16 | 16. ntc iii | 3894 |
0.2%
|
| 17 | 17. diploma/certificate with less than grade 12/std 10 | 7430 |
0.5%
|
| 18 | 18. diploma/certificate with grade 12/std 10 | 44414 |
2.7%
|
| 19 | 19. degree | 18886 |
1.2%
|
| 20 | 20. postgraduate degree or diploma | 6498 |
0.4%
|
| 21 | 21. other | 1359 |
0.1%
|
| 22 | 22. don't know | 5128 |
0.3%
|
| 99 | 99. unspecified | 972 |
0.1%
|
| Sysmiss | 5819329 |
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.