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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Nov 24, 2025
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highest level of education (waves 04:2 to 2012:2) (educhigh2)
Data file: palmsv4
Overview
Valid:
1580774
Invalid:
5866786
Minimum:
0
Maximum:
99
Type:
Discrete
Decimal:
0
loc_start_pos:
79
loc_end_pos:
80
Width:
2
Range:
0 - 99
Format:
Numeric
Questions and instructions
Categories
| Value | Category | Cases | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | 0. no schooling | 298655 |
18.9%
|
| 1 | 1. grade r/0 | 39835 |
2.5%
|
| 2 | 2. grade 1/sub a | 41998 |
2.7%
|
| 3 | 3. grade 2/sub b | 46962 |
3%
|
| 4 | 4. grade 3/standard 1 | 58139 |
3.7%
|
| 5 | 5. grade 4/standard 2 | 64845 |
4.1%
|
| 6 | 6. grade 5/standard 3 | 65529 |
4.1%
|
| 7 | 7. grade 6/standard 4 | 76768 |
4.9%
|
| 8 | 8. grade 7/standard 5 | 96785 |
6.1%
|
| 9 | 9. grade 8/standard 6/form 1 | 106442 |
6.7%
|
| 10 | 10. grade 9/standard 7/form 2 | 104407 |
6.6%
|
| 11 | 11. grade 10/standard 8/form 3 | 127560 |
8.1%
|
| 12 | 12. grade 11/standard 9/form 4 | 117131 |
7.4%
|
| 13 | 13. grade 12/standard 10/form 5/matric | 221543 |
14%
|
| 14 | 14. ntc l | 671 |
0%
|
| 15 | 15. ntc ii | 959 |
0.1%
|
| 16 | 16. ntc iii | 3160 |
0.2%
|
| 17 | 17. certificate with less than grade 12/std 10 | 3216 |
0.2%
|
| 18 | 18. diploma with less than grade 12/std 10 | 2672 |
0.2%
|
| 19 | 19. certificate with grade 12/std 10 | 18476 |
1.2%
|
| 20 | 20. diploma with grade 12/std 10 | 41772 |
2.6%
|
| 21 | 21. bachelors degree | 17524 |
1.1%
|
| 22 | 22. bachelors degree and diploma | 4510 |
0.3%
|
| 23 | 23. honours degree | 5629 |
0.4%
|
| 24 | 24. higher degree (masters, doctorate) | 4283 |
0.3%
|
| 25 | 25. other | 5242 |
0.3%
|
| 26 | 26. do not know | 6058 |
0.4%
|
| 99 | 3 |
0%
|
|
| Sysmiss | 5866786 |
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.