Post Apartheid Labour Market Series 1993-2025

South Africa, 1993 - 2025

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zaf-df-palms-1993-2025-v4

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Andrew Kerr, David Lam, Martin Wittenberg

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employment status, official (empstat1)

Data file: palmsv4

Overview

Valid: 5116999

Invalid: 2330561

Minimum: 0

Maximum: 2

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

loc_start_pos: 86

loc_end_pos: 86

Width: 1

Range: 0 - 2

Format: Numeric

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Categories

Value	Category	Cases
0	0. not economically active	2577514	50.4%
1	1. employed	1859830	36.3%
2	2. unemployed	679655	13.3%
Sysmiss		2330561

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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