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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lfs variable for wage/self/domestic: business is formal, registered (formalreg0)

Data file: palmsv4

Overview

Valid: 1104321

Invalid: 6343239

Minimum: 1

Maximum: 9

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

loc_start_pos: 124

loc_end_pos: 124

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 9

Format: Numeric

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Value	Category	Cases
1	1. in the formal sector	279593	25.3%
2	2. in the informal sector (including domestic work)	129846	11.8%
3	3. don	2235	0.2%
8	8. not applicable	690839	62.6%
9	9. unspecified	1808	0.2%
Sysmiss		6343239

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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