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
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time since you last worked (lfs) (whenlastjob)
Data file: palmsv4
Overview
Valid:
1104321
Invalid:
6343239
Minimum:
1
Maximum:
9
Type:
Discrete
Decimal:
0
loc_start_pos:
180
loc_end_pos:
180
Width:
1
Range:
1 - 9
Format:
Numeric
Questions and instructions
Categories
| Value | Category | Cases | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1. 1 week - less than 1 month | 4789 |
0.4%
|
| 2 | 2. 1 month - less than 6 months | 25186 |
2.3%
|
| 3 | 3. 6 months - less than 1 year | 14269 |
1.3%
|
| 4 | 4. 1 year - less than 2 years | 20495 |
1.9%
|
| 5 | 5. 2 years - less than 3 years | 19965 |
1.8%
|
| 6 | 6. 3 years or more | 135944 |
12.3%
|
| 7 | 7. don't know | 1692 |
0.2%
|
| 8 | 8. not applicable | 865853 |
78.4%
|
| 9 | 9. unspecified | 16128 |
1.5%
|
| 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.