Post Apartheid Labour Market Series 1993-2025
South Africa, 1993 - 2025
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Reference ID
zaf-df-palms-1993-2025-v4
Producer(s)
Andrew Kerr, David Lam, Martin Wittenberg
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Sep 05, 2013
Last modified
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industry of employment, short code (jobindcode)
Data file: palmsv4
Overview
Valid:
1857464
Invalid:
5590096
Minimum:
1
Maximum:
99
Type:
Discrete
Decimal:
0
loc_start_pos:
129
loc_end_pos:
130
Width:
2
Range:
1 - 99
Format:
Numeric
Questions and instructions
Categories
| Value | Category | Cases | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1. agriculture, hunting, forestry and fishing | 161666 |
8.7%
|
| 2 | 2. mining and quarrying | 58576 |
3.2%
|
| 3 | 3. manufacturing | 216531 |
11.7%
|
| 4 | 4. utilities | 13725 |
0.7%
|
| 5 | 5. construction | 132788 |
7.1%
|
| 6 | 6. trade | 386190 |
20.8%
|
| 7 | 7. transport | 96154 |
5.2%
|
| 8 | 8. finance | 205338 |
11.1%
|
| 9 | 9. services | 409842 |
22.1%
|
| 10 | 10. domestic services | 173396 |
9.3%
|
| 11 | 402 |
0%
|
|
| 99 | 2856 |
0.2%
|
|
| Sysmiss | 5590096 |
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.