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
Created on
Sep 05, 2013
Last modified
Nov 24, 2025
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- palmsv4
- palmsv4incomes
- palmsv4miincomes
period trying to find work or start a business (consistent coding for all waves) (searchlength)
Data file: palmsv4
Overview
Valid:
1104321
Invalid:
6343239
Minimum:
1
Maximum:
9
Type:
Discrete
Decimal:
0
loc_start_pos:
178
loc_end_pos:
178
Width:
1
Range:
1 - 9
Format:
Numeric
Questions and instructions
Categories
| Value | Category | Cases | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1. less than a month | 13283 |
1.2%
|
| 2 | 2. 1 month to less than 6 months | 28817 |
2.6%
|
| 3 | 3. 6 months to less than 1 year | 17695 |
1.6%
|
| 4 | 4. 1 year to less than 3 years | 39395 |
3.6%
|
| 5 | 5. 3 years or more | 57224 |
5.2%
|
| 6 | 6. don | 637 |
0.1%
|
| 8 | 8. not applicable | 911755 |
82.6%
|
| 9 | 9. unspecified | 35515 |
3.2%
|
| Sysmiss | 6343239 |
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.