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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employer (qlfs) (employer2)

Data file: palmsv4

Overview

Valid: 2858689

Invalid: 4588871

Minimum: 1

Maximum: 8

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

loc_start_pos: 93

loc_end_pos: 93

Width: 1

Range: 0 - 8

Format: Numeric

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Value	Category	Cases
0	0. not applicable	0	0%
1	1. working for someone else for pay	1081507	37.8%
2	2. an employer (employing one or more employees)	66012	2.3%
3	3. own account worker ( not employing any employees)	129678	4.5%
4	4. helping without pay in a household business	8431	0.3%
8		1573061	55%
Sysmiss		4588871

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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