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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Sep 05, 2013

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type of business where person works (waves 00:1 to 01:1) (businesstype1)

Data file: palmsv4

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Valid: 177361

Invalid: 7270199

Minimum: 1

Maximum: 9

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

loc_start_pos: 155

loc_end_pos: 155

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 9

Format: Numeric

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Value	Category	Cases
1	1. central government	2439	1.4%
2	2. provincial government	6310	3.6%
3	3. local government	2201	1.2%
4	4. a government enterprise (transnet, telkom, etc)	2074	1.2%
5	5. a non-profit organisation (ngo, cbo, charity, embassy)	1026	0.6%
6	6. a private business or self-employed	44741	25.2%
7	7. don	590	0.3%
8	8. not applicable	116666	65.8%
9	9. unspecified	1314	0.7%
Sysmiss		7270199

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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