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
Metadata
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Sep 05, 2013
Last modified
Nov 24, 2025
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- palmsv4
- palmsv4incomes
- palmsv4miincomes
job is permanent or limited duration (lfs only) (jobpermanent)
Data file: palmsv4
Overview
Valid:
1032691
Invalid:
6414869
Minimum:
1
Maximum:
9
Type:
Discrete
Decimal:
0
loc_start_pos:
168
loc_end_pos:
168
Width:
1
Range:
1 - 9
Format:
Numeric
Questions and instructions
Categories
| Value | Category | Cases | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1. permanent | 222890 |
21.6%
|
| 2 | 2. a fixed period contract | 12966 |
1.3%
|
| 3 | 3. temporary | 39452 |
3.8%
|
| 4 | 4. casual | 23450 |
2.3%
|
| 5 | 5. seasonal | 4536 |
0.4%
|
| 6 | 6. don | 1239 |
0.1%
|
| 8 | 8. not applicable | 726892 |
70.4%
|
| 9 | 9. unspecified | 1266 |
0.1%
|
| Sysmiss | 6414869 |
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.