Post Apartheid Labour Market Series 1993-2025
South Africa, 1993 - 2025
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Reference ID
zaf-df-palms-1993-2025-v4
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Andrew Kerr, David Lam, Martin Wittenberg
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year started working for employer, ohs 95 onwards (jobstartyear)
Data file: palmsv4
Overview
Valid:
1714745
Invalid:
5732815
Minimum:
1919
Maximum:
9999
Type:
Discrete
Decimal:
0
loc_start_pos:
97
loc_end_pos:
100
Width:
4
Range:
1919 - 9999
Format:
Numeric
Questions and instructions
Categories
| Value | Category | Cases | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1919 | 1 |
0%
|
|
| 1927 | 1 |
0%
|
|
| 1930 | 1 |
0%
|
|
| 1931 | 1 |
0%
|
|
| 1932 | 3 |
0%
|
|
| 1933 | 1 |
0%
|
|
| 1934 | 1 |
0%
|
|
| 1935 | 2 |
0%
|
|
| 1936 | 4 |
0%
|
|
| 1937 | 3 |
0%
|
|
| 1938 | 4 |
0%
|
|
| 1939 | 5 |
0%
|
|
| 1940 | 16 |
0%
|
|
| 1941 | 11 |
0%
|
|
| 1942 | 11 |
0%
|
|
| 1943 | 10 |
0%
|
|
| 1944 | 24 |
0%
|
|
| 1945 | 13 |
0%
|
|
| 1946 | 11 |
0%
|
|
| 1947 | 18 |
0%
|
|
| 1948 | 22 |
0%
|
|
| 1949 | 19 |
0%
|
|
| 1950 | 63 |
0%
|
|
| 1951 | 19 |
0%
|
|
| 1952 | 47 |
0%
|
|
| 1953 | 48 |
0%
|
|
| 1954 | 61 |
0%
|
|
| 1955 | 85 |
0%
|
|
| 1956 | 90 |
0%
|
|
| 1957 | 97 |
0%
|
|
| 1958 | 122 |
0%
|
|
| 1959 | 132 |
0%
|
|
| 1960 | 470 |
0%
|
|
| 1961 | 218 |
0%
|
|
| 1962 | 295 |
0%
|
|
| 1963 | 315 |
0%
|
|
| 1964 | 445 |
0%
|
|
| 1965 | 589 |
0%
|
|
| 1966 | 531 |
0%
|
|
| 1967 | 641 |
0%
|
|
| 1968 | 900 |
0.1%
|
|
| 1969 | 1064 |
0.1%
|
|
| 1970 | 2519 |
0.1%
|
|
| 1971 | 1639 |
0.1%
|
|
| 1972 | 2045 |
0.1%
|
|
| 1973 | 2196 |
0.1%
|
|
| 1974 | 2771 |
0.2%
|
|
| 1975 | 3624 |
0.2%
|
|
| 1976 | 3988 |
0.2%
|
|
| 1977 | 3622 |
0.2%
|
|
| 1978 | 4816 |
0.3%
|
|
| 1979 | 5988 |
0.3%
|
|
| 1980 | 11977 |
0.7%
|
|
| 1981 | 8187 |
0.5%
|
|
| 1982 | 10427 |
0.6%
|
|
| 1983 | 9303 |
0.5%
|
|
| 1984 | 10896 |
0.6%
|
|
| 1985 | 12430 |
0.7%
|
|
| 1986 | 13163 |
0.8%
|
|
| 1987 | 13819 |
0.8%
|
|
| 1988 | 14684 |
0.9%
|
|
| 1989 | 20909 |
1.2%
|
|
| 1990 | 28052 |
1.6%
|
|
| 1991 | 19273 |
1.1%
|
|
| 1992 | 22311 |
1.3%
|
|
| 1993 | 22082 |
1.3%
|
|
| 1994 | 29425 |
1.7%
|
|
| 1995 | 32468 |
1.9%
|
|
| 1996 | 33463 |
2%
|
|
| 1997 | 32770 |
1.9%
|
|
| 1998 | 37895 |
2.2%
|
|
| 1999 | 44227 |
2.6%
|
|
| 2000 | 54864 |
3.2%
|
|
| 2001 | 46677 |
2.7%
|
|
| 2002 | 44817 |
2.6%
|
|
| 2003 | 46076 |
2.7%
|
|
| 2004 | 50687 |
3%
|
|
| 2005 | 57500 |
3.4%
|
|
| 2006 | 64988 |
3.8%
|
|
| 2007 | 75466 |
4.4%
|
|
| 2008 | 83243 |
4.9%
|
|
| 2009 | 74343 |
4.3%
|
|
| 2010 | 75033 |
4.4%
|
|
| 2011 | 59170 |
3.5%
|
|
| 2012 | 61324 |
3.6%
|
|
| 2013 | 57880 |
3.4%
|
|
| 2014 | 56367 |
3.3%
|
|
| 2015 | 55708 |
3.2%
|
|
| 2016 | 48170 |
2.8%
|
|
| 2017 | 44166 |
2.6%
|
|
| 2018 | 41803 |
2.4%
|
|
| 2019 | 35287 |
2.1%
|
|
| 2020 | 22226 |
1.3%
|
|
| 2021 | 23267 |
1.4%
|
|
| 2022 | 25924 |
1.5%
|
|
| 2023 | 22926 |
1.3%
|
|
| 2024 | 14267 |
0.8%
|
|
| 2025 | 2735 |
0.2%
|
|
| 8888 | 8888. not applicable | 0 |
0%
|
| 9999 | 9999. unspecified | 2448 |
0.1%
|
| Sysmiss | 5732815 |
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.