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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Sep 05, 2013

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employee considers the enterprise they work for formal (ohs only) (wageformalreg)

Data file: palmsv4

Overview

Valid: 62138

Invalid: 7385422

Minimum: 0

Maximum: 2

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

loc_start_pos: 120

loc_end_pos: 123

Width: 4

Range: 0 - 8888

Format: Numeric

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Value	Category	Cases
0	0. missing/don't know	187	0.3%
1	1. yes/ formal	51159	82.3%
2	2. no/ informal (including domestic work)	10792	17.4%
8888	8888. not applicable	0	0%
Sysmiss		7385422

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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