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
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Sep 05, 2013
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- palmsv4
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industry of previous job, 1 digit code (lfs and qlfs) (previndcode)
Data file: palmsv4
Overview
Valid:
2340151
Invalid:
5107409
Minimum:
0
Maximum:
11
Type:
Discrete
Decimal:
0
loc_start_pos:
188
loc_end_pos:
189
Width:
2
Range:
0 - 11
Format:
Numeric
Questions and instructions
Categories
| Value | Category | Cases | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | 0. not applicable | 1948422 |
83.3%
|
| 1 | 1. agriculture, hunting and forestry | 29815 |
1.3%
|
| 2 | 2. mining | 7108 |
0.3%
|
| 3 | 3. manufacturing | 42552 |
1.8%
|
| 4 | 4. electricity, gas and water | 2233 |
0.1%
|
| 5 | 5. construction | 53637 |
2.3%
|
| 6 | 6. wholesale and retail trade | 84606 |
3.6%
|
| 7 | 7. transport, storage and communication | 16670 |
0.7%
|
| 8 | 8. finance and business services | 41787 |
1.8%
|
| 9 | 9. community, social and personal services | 60580 |
2.6%
|
| 10 | 10. private households | 52521 |
2.2%
|
| 11 | 11. other | 220 |
0%
|
| Sysmiss | 5107409 |
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.