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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contract is written or verbal? (jobcontract2)

Data file: palmsv4

Overview

Valid: 2736553

Invalid: 4711007

Minimum: 1

Maximum: 8

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

loc_start_pos: 165

loc_end_pos: 165

Width: 1

Range: 0 - 8

Format: Numeric

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Value	Category	Cases
0	0. not applicable	0	0%
1	1. a written contract	856280	31.3%
2	2. a verbal agreement	225227	8.2%
8		1655046	60.5%
Sysmiss		4711007

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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