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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- palmsv4
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highest level of education (waves 2012:3 to 2016:2) (educhigh3)
Data file: palmsv4
Overview
Valid:
1282327
Invalid:
6165233
Minimum:
0
Maximum:
98
Type:
Discrete
Decimal:
0
loc_start_pos:
81
loc_end_pos:
82
Width:
2
Range:
0 - 98
Format:
Numeric
Questions and instructions
Categories
| Value | Category | Cases | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | 0. grade r/0 | 30161 |
2.4%
|
| 1 | 1. sub a/grade 1 | 36813 |
2.9%
|
| 2 | 2. sub b/grade 2 | 39304 |
3.1%
|
| 3 | 3. grade 3/standard 1 | 43130 |
3.4%
|
| 4 | 4. grade 4/standard 2 | 48333 |
3.8%
|
| 5 | 5. grade 5/standard 3 | 46214 |
3.6%
|
| 6 | 6. grade 6/standard 4 | 54878 |
4.3%
|
| 7 | 7. grade 7/standard 5 | 70475 |
5.5%
|
| 8 | 8. grade 8/standard 6/form 1 | 82677 |
6.4%
|
| 9 | 9. grade 9/standard 7/form 2 | 80592 |
6.3%
|
| 10 | 10. grade 10/standard 8/form 3 | 111931 |
8.7%
|
| 11 | 11. grade 11/standard 9/form 4 | 108247 |
8.4%
|
| 12 | 12. grade 12/standard 10/form 5/matric | 201049 |
15.7%
|
| 13 | 13. ntc i | 1695 |
0.1%
|
| 14 | 14. ntc ii | 1210 |
0.1%
|
| 15 | 15. ntc iii | 2346 |
0.2%
|
| 16 | 16. n4/ntc 4 | 1681 |
0.1%
|
| 17 | 17. n5 /ntc 5 | 1632 |
0.1%
|
| 18 | 18. n6/ntc 6 | 2598 |
0.2%
|
| 19 | 19. certificate with less than grade 12/std 10 | 2438 |
0.2%
|
| 20 | 20. diploma with less than grade 12/std 10 | 2262 |
0.2%
|
| 21 | 21. certificate with grade 12/std 10 | 13513 |
1.1%
|
| 22 | 22. diploma with grade 12/std 10 | 30924 |
2.4%
|
| 23 | 23. higher diploma | 4433 |
0.3%
|
| 24 | 24. post higher diploma | 1391 |
0.1%
|
| 25 | 25. bachelors degree | 16869 |
1.3%
|
| 26 | 26. bachelors degree and pg diploma | 2825 |
0.2%
|
| 27 | 27. honours degree | 5580 |
0.4%
|
| 28 | 28. higher degree (masters/phd) | 3342 |
0.3%
|
| 29 | 29. other, specify | 3439 |
0.3%
|
| 30 | 30. don't know | 4943 |
0.4%
|
| 98 | 98. no schooling | 225402 |
17.6%
|
| Sysmiss | 6165233 |
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.