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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3 digit industry sic code, ohs 99+lfs (industry)
Data file: palmsv4
Overview
Valid:
1175313
Invalid:
6272247
Minimum:
0
Maximum:
8888
Type:
Discrete
Decimal:
0
loc_start_pos:
131
loc_end_pos:
134
Width:
4
Range:
0 - 9999
Format:
Numeric
Questions and instructions
Categories
| Value | Category | Cases | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | 0. invalid code | 5 |
0%
|
| 10 | 10. private households with employed persons | 45376 |
3.9%
|
| 13 | 1 |
0%
|
|
| 14 | 1 |
0%
|
|
| 15 | 2 |
0%
|
|
| 20 | 20. exterritorial organisations | 98 |
0%
|
| 25 | 1 |
0%
|
|
| 30 | 30. representatives of foreign governments | 47 |
0%
|
| 34 | 1 |
0%
|
|
| 40 | 1 |
0%
|
|
| 41 | 1 |
0%
|
|
| 43 | 1 |
0%
|
|
| 46 | 1 |
0%
|
|
| 50 | 2 |
0%
|
|
| 60 | 60. not elsewhere classified | 2 |
0%
|
| 62 | 1 |
0%
|
|
| 80 | 1 |
0%
|
|
| 86 | 1 |
0%
|
|
| 90 | 90. other activities not adequately defined | 683 |
0.1%
|
| 110 | 110. growing of crops | 35 |
0%
|
| 111 | 111. growing of grains (eg. maize, wheat, barley etc.), oil | 7902 |
0.7%
|
| 112 | 112. growing of vegetables | 12330 |
1%
|
| 113 | 113. growing of other horticultural specialities and nursery | 1059 |
0.1%
|
| 114 | 114. growing of fruit | 8656 |
0.7%
|
| 115 | 115. growing of vineyards | 5852 |
0.5%
|
| 116 | 116. growing sugar cane | 3685 |
0.3%
|
| 117 | 117. growing of cotton | 102 |
0%
|
| 118 | 118. growing of other crops (eg. spices) / unspesified (wher | 1356 |
0.1%
|
| 120 | 120. farming of animals | 12 |
0%
|
| 121 | 121. animals for meat, including breeding but excluding chic | 9567 |
0.8%
|
| 122 | 122. chickens, including breeding and slaughtering | 2129 |
0.2%
|
| 123 | 123. horses | 185 |
0%
|
| 124 | 124. dairy farming, including milk etc. | 1412 |
0.1%
|
| 125 | 125. sheep | 2815 |
0.2%
|
| 126 | 126. ostrich | 319 |
0%
|
| 127 | 127. goats | 548 |
0%
|
| 128 | 128. farming with animals, unspecified (ie where no other de | 451 |
0%
|
| 129 | 129. other animal farming: production of animal products nec | 165 |
0%
|
| 130 | 130. production of organic fertilizer | 37 |
0%
|
| 131 | 2 |
0%
|
|
| 132 | 1 |
0%
|
|
| 140 | 140. forestry, logging and related services | 24 |
0%
|
| 141 | 141. forestry and related services | 3777 |
0.3%
|
| 142 | 142. logging and related services | 407 |
0%
|
| 150 | 150. fishing, operational of fish hatcheries and fish farms | 1 |
0%
|
| 151 | 151. ocean and coastal fishing | 355 |
0%
|
| 152 | 152. rivers and dams (ie. inland fishing) | 145 |
0%
|
| 153 | 153. fish hatcheries and fish farms | 75 |
0%
|
| 160 | 160. growing of crops combined with farming of animals | 4111 |
0.3%
|
| 170 | 170. agricultural and animal husbandry services, | 13 |
0%
|
| 171 | 171. animal boarding activities without health care | 48 |
0%
|
| 172 | 172. pest control in connection with agriculture | 64 |
0%
|
| 173 | 173. farm development, orchards and field preparation | 31 |
0%
|
| 174 | 174. providing agricultural machinery with drivers and crew | 20 |
0%
|
| 175 | 175. harvesting and related activities such as the preparati | 201 |
0%
|
| 176 | 176. landscaping gardening and planning and design in connec | 338 |
0%
|
| 177 | 177. artificial insemination, herd testing | 0 |
0%
|
| 178 | 178. manure gathering, sheep dipping and sheering, egg clean | 15 |
0%
|
| 180 | 180. game hunting, trapping and game propagation, iincluding | 2 |
0%
|
| 181 | 181. game propagation | 54 |
0%
|
| 182 | 182. hunting and trapping, including related services | 52 |
0%
|
| 183 | 183. game breeding | 39 |
0%
|
| 190 | 190. farming, unspecified | 935 |
0.1%
|
| 201 | 1 |
0%
|
|
| 210 | 210. mining of coal and lignite | 1943 |
0.2%
|
| 221 | 221. extraction of crude petroleum and natural gas; | 14 |
0%
|
| 230 | 230. mining of gold and uranium ore | 9987 |
0.8%
|
| 240 | 240. mining of metal ores | 33 |
0%
|
| 241 | 241. mining of iron ore | 584 |
0%
|
| 242 | 242. mining of non-ferrous metal ores | 4237 |
0.4%
|
| 250 | 250. other mining and quarrying | 8 |
0%
|
| 251 | 251. stone quarrying, clay and sandpits | 441 |
0%
|
| 252 | 252. mining of diamonds (inclu-ding alluvial diamonds) | 1421 |
0.1%
|
| 253 | 253. mining and quarrying n.e.c. | 578 |
0%
|
| 290 | 290. service activities incidental to mining of minerals | 56 |
0%
|
| 300 | 300. manufacture of food products, beverages and tobacco pro | 2 |
0%
|
| 301 | 301. production, processing and preservation of meat, fish, | 2973 |
0.3%
|
| 302 | 302. manufacture of dairy products | 816 |
0.1%
|
| 303 | 303. manufacture of grain mill products, starches and starch | 740 |
0.1%
|
| 304 | 304. manufacture of other food products | 2892 |
0.2%
|
| 305 | 305. manufacture of beverages | 2075 |
0.2%
|
| 306 | 306. manufacture of tobacco products | 143 |
0%
|
| 309 | 1 |
0%
|
|
| 310 | 310. manufacture of textiles, clothing and leather goods | 22 |
0%
|
| 311 | 311. spinning, weaving and finishing of textiles | 656 |
0.1%
|
| 312 | 312. manufacture of other textiles | 1660 |
0.1%
|
| 313 | 313. manufacture of knitted and crocheted fabrics and articl | 672 |
0.1%
|
| 314 | 314. manufacture of wearing apparel, except fur apparel | 7199 |
0.6%
|
| 315 | 315. dressing and dyeing of fur; manufacture of articles of | 30 |
0%
|
| 316 | 316. tanning and dressing of leather; manufacture of luggage | 328 |
0%
|
| 317 | 317. manufacture of footwear | 770 |
0.1%
|
| 320 | 320. manufacture of wood and of products of wood and cork, e | 5 |
0%
|
| 321 | 321. sawmilling and planing of wood | 679 |
0.1%
|
| 322 | 322. manufacture of products of wood, cork, straw and | 2187 |
0.2%
|
| 323 | 323. manufacture of paper and paper products | 1135 |
0.1%
|
| 324 | 324. publishing | 483 |
0%
|
| 325 | 325. printing and service activities related to printing | 1277 |
0.1%
|
| 326 | 326. reproduction of recorded media | 13 |
0%
|
| 330 | 330. manufacture of coke, refined petroleum products and nuc | 12 |
0%
|
| 331 | 331. manufacture of coke oven products | 84 |
0%
|
| 332 | 332. petroleum refineries / synthesisers | 970 |
0.1%
|
| 333 | 333. processing of nuclear fuel | 28 |
0%
|
| 334 | 334. manufacture of basic chemicals | 442 |
0%
|
| 335 | 335. manufacture of other chemical products | 1778 |
0.2%
|
| 336 | 336. manufacture of manmade fibres | 9 |
0%
|
| 337 | 337. manufacture of rubber products | 761 |
0.1%
|
| 338 | 338. manufacture of plastic products | 1288 |
0.1%
|
| 340 | 340. manufacture of other non-metallic mineral products | 2 |
0%
|
| 341 | 341. manufacture of glass and glass products | 487 |
0%
|
| 342 | 342. manufacture of non-metallic mineral products n.e.c | 3268 |
0.3%
|
| 350 | 350. manufacture of basic metals, fabricated metal products | 7 |
0%
|
| 351 | 351. manufacture of basic iron and steel | 2475 |
0.2%
|
| 352 | 352. manufacture of basic precious and non-ferrous metals | 595 |
0.1%
|
| 353 | 353. casting of metals | 355 |
0%
|
| 354 | 354. manufacture of structural metal products, tanks, reserv | 2046 |
0.2%
|
| 355 | 355. manufacture of other fabricated metal products; metalwo | 2411 |
0.2%
|
| 356 | 356. manufacture of general purpose machinery | 602 |
0.1%
|
| 357 | 357. manufacture of special purpose machinery | 945 |
0.1%
|
| 358 | 358. manufacture of household appliances n.e.c. | 652 |
0.1%
|
| 359 | 359. manufacture of office, accounting and computing machine | 206 |
0%
|
| 360 | 360. manufacture of electrical machinery and apparatus n.e.c | 9 |
0%
|
| 361 | 361. manufacture of electric motors, generators and transfor | 77 |
0%
|
| 362 | 362. manufacture of electricity distribution and control app | 129 |
0%
|
| 363 | 363. manufacture of insulated wire and cable | 262 |
0%
|
| 364 | 364. manufacture of accumulators, primary cells and primary | 90 |
0%
|
| 365 | 365. manufacture of electric lamps and lighting equipment | 91 |
0%
|
| 366 | 366. manufacture of other electrical equipment n.e.c. | 296 |
0%
|
| 370 | 370. manufacture of radio, television and communication equi | 11 |
0%
|
| 371 | 371. manufacture of electronic valves and tubes and other el | 84 |
0%
|
| 372 | 372. manufacture of television and radio transmitters and ap | 102 |
0%
|
| 373 | 373. manufacture of television and radio receivers, sound or | 89 |
0%
|
| 374 | 374. manufacture of medical appliances and instruments and a | 237 |
0%
|
| 375 | 375. manufacture of optical instruments and photographic equ | 30 |
0%
|
| 376 | 376. manufacture of watches and clocks | 4 |
0%
|
| 380 | 380. manufacture of transport equipment | 6 |
0%
|
| 381 | 381. manufacture of motor vehicles | 1408 |
0.1%
|
| 382 | 382. manufacture of bodies (coachwork) for motor vehicles; | 187 |
0%
|
| 383 | 383. manufacture of parts and accessories for motor | 1377 |
0.1%
|
| 384 | 384. building and repairing of ships and boats | 156 |
0%
|
| 385 | 385. manufacture of railway and tramway locomotives and | 46 |
0%
|
| 386 | 386. manufacture of aircraft and spacecraft | 54 |
0%
|
| 387 | 387. manufacture of transport equipment n.e.c. | 52 |
0%
|
| 390 | 390. manufacture of furniture; manufacturing n.e.c.; | 3 |
0%
|
| 391 | 391. manufacture of furniture | 1527 |
0.1%
|
| 392 | 392. manufacturing n.e.c. | 799 |
0.1%
|
| 395 | 395. recycling n.e.c. | 578 |
0%
|
| 410 | 410. electricity, gas, steam and hot water supply | 24 |
0%
|
| 411 | 411. production, collection and distribution of electricity | 2089 |
0.2%
|
| 412 | 412. manufacture of gas; distribution of gaseous fuels throu | 60 |
0%
|
| 413 | 413. steam and hot water supply | 29 |
0%
|
| 420 | 420. collection, purification and distribution of water | 934 |
0.1%
|
| 463 | 1 |
0%
|
|
| 500 | 500. construction | 3 |
0%
|
| 501 | 501. site preparation | 26 |
0%
|
| 502 | 502. building of complete constructions or parts thereof; ci | 19148 |
1.6%
|
| 503 | 503. building installation | 3269 |
0.3%
|
| 504 | 504. building completion | 3120 |
0.3%
|
| 505 | 505. renting of construction of demolition equipment with op | 25 |
0%
|
| 507 | 1 |
0%
|
|
| 610 | 610. wholesale and commission trade, except of motor vehicle | 6 |
0%
|
| 611 | 611. wholesale trade on a fee or contract basis | 421 |
0%
|
| 612 | 612. wholesale trade in agricultural raw materials, livestoc | 1618 |
0.1%
|
| 613 | 613. wholesale trade in house-hold goods | 420 |
0%
|
| 614 | 614. wholesale trade in non-agricultural intermediate produc | 899 |
0.1%
|
| 615 | 615. wholesale trade in machinery, equipment and supplies | 205 |
0%
|
| 619 | 619. other wholesale trade | 245 |
0%
|
| 620 | 620. retail trade, except of motor vehicles and motor cycles | 9 |
0%
|
| 621 | 621. non-specialised retail trade in stores | 9995 |
0.9%
|
| 622 | 622. retail trade in food, beverages and tobacco in speciali | 5922 |
0.5%
|
| 623 | 623. other retail trade in new goods in specialised stores | 14857 |
1.3%
|
| 624 | 624. retail trade in second-hand goods in stores | 78 |
0%
|
| 625 | 625. retail trade not in stores | 27509 |
2.3%
|
| 626 | 626. repair of personal and household goods | 2241 |
0.2%
|
| 630 | 630. sale, maintenance and repair of motor vehicles and mot | 9 |
0%
|
| 631 | 631. sale of motor vehicles | 1383 |
0.1%
|
| 632 | 632. maintenance and re-pair of motor vehicles | 6411 |
0.5%
|
| 633 | 633. sale of motor vehicle parts and accessories | 1307 |
0.1%
|
| 634 | 634. sale, maintenance and repair of motor cycles and relat | 103 |
0%
|
| 635 | 635. retail sale of automotive fuel | 2903 |
0.2%
|
| 640 | 640. hotels and restaurants | 11 |
0%
|
| 641 | 641. hotels, camping sites and other provision of short stay | 3883 |
0.3%
|
| 642 | 642. restaurants, bars and canteens | 6639 |
0.6%
|
| 643 | 643. shebeen | 2975 |
0.3%
|
| 672 | 1 |
0%
|
|
| 673 | 2 |
0%
|
|
| 675 | 1 |
0%
|
|
| 710 | 710. land transport; transport via pipelines | 3 |
0%
|
| 711 | 711. railway transport | 2080 |
0.2%
|
| 712 | 712. other land transport | 10072 |
0.9%
|
| 713 | 713. transport via pipelines | 12 |
0%
|
| 714 | 1 |
0%
|
|
| 717 | 1 |
0%
|
|
| 720 | 720. water transport | 26 |
0%
|
| 721 | 721. sea and coastal water transport | 353 |
0%
|
| 722 | 722. inland water transport | 33 |
0%
|
| 730 | 730. air transport | 512 |
0%
|
| 741 | 741. supporting and auxiliary transport activities; activiti | 1463 |
0.1%
|
| 750 | 750. post and telecommunication | 20 |
0%
|
| 751 | 751. postal and related courier activities | 974 |
0.1%
|
| 752 | 752. telecommunication | 2342 |
0.2%
|
| 810 | 810. financial intermediation, except insurance and pension | 2 |
0%
|
| 811 | 811. monetary intermediation | 3817 |
0.3%
|
| 818 | 818. cash loans | 546 |
0%
|
| 819 | 819. other financial intermediation n.e.c. | 783 |
0.1%
|
| 820 | 1 |
0%
|
|
| 821 | 821. insurance and pension funding, except compulsory social | 2596 |
0.2%
|
| 830 | 830. activities auxiliary to financial intermediation | 1 |
0%
|
| 831 | 831. activities auxiliary to financial intermediation, excep | 204 |
0%
|
| 832 | 832. activities auxiliary to insurance and pension funding | 13 |
0%
|
| 840 | 840. real estate activities | 2 |
0%
|
| 841 | 841. real estate activities with own or leased property | 1506 |
0.1%
|
| 842 | 842. real estate activities on a fee or contract basis | 213 |
0%
|
| 850 | 850. renting of machinery and equipment, without operator a | 1 |
0%
|
| 851 | 851. renting of transport equipment | 160 |
0%
|
| 852 | 852. renting of other machinery and equipment | 149 |
0%
|
| 853 | 853. renting of personal and household goods n.e.c. | 150 |
0%
|
| 860 | 860. computer and related activities | 18 |
0%
|
| 861 | 861. hardware consultancy | 182 |
0%
|
| 862 | 862. software consultancy and supply | 688 |
0.1%
|
| 863 | 863. data processing | 38 |
0%
|
| 864 | 864. data base activities | 95 |
0%
|
| 865 | 865. maintenance and repair of office, accounting and comput | 154 |
0%
|
| 869 | 869. other computer related activities | 207 |
0%
|
| 870 | 870. research and development | 1 |
0%
|
| 871 | 871. research and experimental development on natural scienc | 516 |
0%
|
| 872 | 872. research and experimental develop-ment on social scienc | 23 |
0%
|
| 880 | 880. other business activities | 1 |
0%
|
| 881 | 881. legal, accounting, bookkeeping and auditing activities; | 3218 |
0.3%
|
| 882 | 882. architectural, engineering and other technical activiti | 1361 |
0.1%
|
| 883 | 883. advertising | 531 |
0%
|
| 888 | 888. not applicable | 690841 |
58.8%
|
| 889 | 889. business activities n.e.c. | 12844 |
1.1%
|
| 910 | 910. public administration and defence activities | 67 |
0%
|
| 911 | 911. central government activi-ties | 4569 |
0.4%
|
| 912 | 912. regional services council activities | 98 |
0%
|
| 913 | 913. local authority activities | 6994 |
0.6%
|
| 914 | 914. provincial administrations | 735 |
0.1%
|
| 915 | 915. s a defence force | 1679 |
0.1%
|
| 916 | 916. s a police service | 5204 |
0.4%
|
| 917 | 917. correctional service | 1618 |
0.1%
|
| 919 | 1 |
0%
|
|
| 920 | 920. education | 26947 |
2.3%
|
| 923 | 1 |
0%
|
|
| 930 | 930. health and social work | 41 |
0%
|
| 931 | 931. human health activities | 16623 |
1.4%
|
| 932 | 932. veterinary activities | 170 |
0%
|
| 933 | 933. social work activities | 4100 |
0.3%
|
| 940 | 940. other community, social and personal service activities | 1502 |
0.1%
|
| 941 | 1 |
0%
|
|
| 950 | 950. activities of membership organisations n.e.c. | 2 |
0%
|
| 951 | 951. activities of business, employers and professional orga | 232 |
0%
|
| 952 | 952. activities of trade unions | 64 |
0%
|
| 959 | 959. activities of other member-ship organisations | 1465 |
0.1%
|
| 960 | 960. recreational, cultural and sporting activities | 10 |
0%
|
| 961 | 961. motion picture, radio, television and other entertainme | 663 |
0.1%
|
| 962 | 962. news agency activities | 165 |
0%
|
| 963 | 963. library, archives, museums and other cultural activitie | 857 |
0.1%
|
| 964 | 964. sporting and other recreational activities | 1687 |
0.1%
|
| 970 | 2 |
0%
|
|
| 971 | 1 |
0%
|
|
| 988 | 988. begging | 63 |
0%
|
| 990 | 990. other service activities | 3858 |
0.3%
|
| 998 | 18 |
0%
|
|
| 999 | 999. unspecified | 1036 |
0.1%
|
| 8888 | 8888. not applicable | 48563 |
4.1%
|
| 9999 | 9999. unspecified | 0 |
0%
|
| Sysmiss | 6272247 |
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.