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
- palmsv4incomes
- palmsv4miincomes
number of employees at place of work (qlfs) (numworkers2)
Data file: palmsv4
Overview
Valid:
2858687
Invalid:
4588873
Minimum:
1
Maximum:
99
Type:
Discrete
Decimal:
0
loc_start_pos:
95
loc_end_pos:
96
Width:
2
Range:
1 - 99
Format:
Numeric
Questions and instructions
Categories
| Value | Category | Cases | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1. 0 employees | 132330 |
4.6%
|
| 2 | 2. 1 employee | 122263 |
4.3%
|
| 3 | 3. between 2 and 4 employees | 129142 |
4.5%
|
| 4 | 4. between 5 and 9 employees | 107613 |
3.8%
|
| 5 | 5. between 10 and 19 employees | 158125 |
5.5%
|
| 6 | 6. between 20 and 49 employees | 190671 |
6.7%
|
| 7 | 7. 50 or more employees | 379501 |
13.3%
|
| 8 | 8. do not know | 65923 |
2.3%
|
| 9 | 8 |
0%
|
|
| 88 | 88. not applicable | 1573061 |
55%
|
| 99 | 50 |
0%
|
|
| Sysmiss | 4588873 |
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.