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
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- palmsv4
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who does ... work for in main job (lfs only) (employer)
Data file: palmsv4
Overview
Valid:
1104321
Invalid:
6343239
Minimum:
1
Maximum:
9
Type:
Discrete
Decimal:
0
loc_start_pos:
88
loc_end_pos:
88
Width:
1
Range:
1 - 9
Format:
Numeric
Questions and instructions
Categories
| Value | Category | Cases | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1. working for someone else for pay | 285424 |
25.8%
|
| 2 | 2. working for one or more private households as a domestic | 40841 |
3.7%
|
| 3 | 3. working on his/her own or on a small household farm/plot | 20559 |
1.9%
|
| 4 | 4. working on his/her own or with a partner | 62201 |
5.6%
|
| 5 | 5. helping without pay in a household business | 3677 |
0.3%
|
| 8 | 8. not applicable | 690839 |
62.6%
|
| 9 | 9. unspecified | 780 |
0.1%
|
| Sysmiss | 6343239 |
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.