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
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month started working for employer, ohs 95 onwards (jobstartmonth)
Data file: palmsv4
Overview
Valid:
1712418
Invalid:
5735142
Minimum:
0
Maximum:
99
Type:
Discrete
Decimal:
0
loc_start_pos:
101
loc_end_pos:
102
Width:
2
Range:
0 - 99
Format:
Numeric
Questions and instructions
Categories
| Value | Category | Cases | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | 1 |
0%
|
|
| 1 | 1. january | 468286 |
27.3%
|
| 2 | 2. february | 176633 |
10.3%
|
| 3 | 3. march | 183586 |
10.7%
|
| 4 | 4. april | 155378 |
9.1%
|
| 5 | 5. may | 97465 |
5.7%
|
| 6 | 6. june | 141517 |
8.3%
|
| 7 | 7. july | 98735 |
5.8%
|
| 8 | 8. august | 94322 |
5.5%
|
| 9 | 9. september | 90084 |
5.3%
|
| 10 | 10. october | 82533 |
4.8%
|
| 11 | 11. november | 71419 |
4.2%
|
| 12 | 12. december | 49110 |
2.9%
|
| 88 | 88. not applicable | 0 |
0%
|
| 99 | 99. unspecified | 3349 |
0.2%
|
| Sysmiss | 5735142 |
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.