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 : is job/business in formal sector, informal sect (informal_sector_derived)

Data file: palmsv4

Overview

Valid: 2858689

Invalid: 4588871

Minimum: 0

Maximum: 4

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

loc_start_pos: 127

loc_end_pos: 127

Width: 1

Range: 0 - 4

Format: Numeric

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Value	Category	Cases
0	0. not applicable	1573061	55%
1	1. formal sector (including agriculture)	929364	32.5%
2	2. informal sector (including agriculture)	241897	8.5%
4	4. private households	114367	4%
Sysmiss		4588871

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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