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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is the business formal, informal or private hh? 2008:1 until 2009:2 (formalreg1)

Data file: palmsv4

Overview

Valid: 559478

Invalid: 6888082

Minimum: 1

Maximum: 8

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

loc_start_pos: 125

loc_end_pos: 125

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 8

Format: Numeric

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Value	Category	Cases
1	1. formal employment	109774	19.6%
2	2. informal employment	21180	3.8%
3	3. private household	14505	2.6%
4	4. don't know	1905	0.3%
8	8. not applicable	412114	73.7%
Sysmiss		6888082

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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