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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derived (by stats sa) variable : indiv is in informal employment (qlfs 2009:3 on (informal_emp_derived)

Data file: palmsv4

Overview

Valid: 2299211

Invalid: 5148349

Minimum: 0

Maximum: 8

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

loc_start_pos: 126

loc_end_pos: 126

Width: 1

Range: 0 - 8

Format: Numeric

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Value	Category	Cases
0	0. not applicable	1160947	50.5%
1	1. formal employment	732966	31.9%
2	2. informal employment	356734	15.5%
8	8. other	48564	2.1%
Sysmiss		5148349

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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