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
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occupation of main job, short code (jobocccode)
Data file: palmsv4
Overview
Valid:
1857208
Invalid:
5590352
Minimum:
1
Maximum:
99
Type:
Discrete
Decimal:
0
loc_start_pos:
140
loc_end_pos:
141
Width:
2
Range:
1 - 99
Format:
Numeric
Questions and instructions
Categories
| Value | Category | Cases | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1. legislators, senior officials and managers | 127887 |
6.9%
|
| 2 | 2. professionals | 91375 |
4.9%
|
| 3 | 3. technical and associate professionals | 179323 |
9.7%
|
| 4 | 4. clerks | 185306 |
10%
|
| 5 | 5. service workers and shop and market sales workers | 265127 |
14.3%
|
| 6 | 6. skilled agricultural and fishery workers | 39061 |
2.1%
|
| 7 | 7. craft and related trades workers | 221629 |
11.9%
|
| 8 | 8. plant and machine operators and assemblers | 161013 |
8.7%
|
| 9 | 9. elementary occupation | 442083 |
23.8%
|
| 10 | 10. domestic workers | 143202 |
7.7%
|
| 11 | 217 |
0%
|
|
| 88 | 88. not applicable | 0 |
0%
|
| 91 | 91. occupation not elsewhere defined | 0 |
0%
|
| 97 | 97. occupation not adequately defined | 0 |
0%
|
| 99 | 99. occupation not elsewhere defined, unspecified | 985 |
0.1%
|
| Sysmiss | 5590352 |
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.