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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main reason you stopped work (reasonstopwork)
Data file: palmsv4
Overview
Valid:
2340151
Invalid:
5107409
Minimum:
0
Maximum:
99
Type:
Discrete
Decimal:
0
loc_start_pos:
191
loc_end_pos:
192
Width:
2
Range:
0 - 99
Format:
Numeric
Questions and instructions
Categories
| Value | Category | Cases | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | 0. not applicable | 1940552 |
82.9%
|
| 1 | 1. health reason | 30460 |
1.3%
|
| 2 | 2. caring for own children/relatives | 8322 |
0.4%
|
| 3 | 3. pregnancy | 9740 |
0.4%
|
| 4 | 4. other family/community responsibilities | 4827 |
0.2%
|
| 5 | 5. going to school | 6788 |
0.3%
|
| 6 | 6. lost job/job ended/laid off/business sold/closed down | 276225 |
11.8%
|
| 7 | 7. changed residence | 4381 |
0.2%
|
| 8 | 8. dissatisfied with the job | 23079 |
1%
|
| 9 | 9. retired/too old to work | 24148 |
1%
|
| 10 | 10. other | 11567 |
0.5%
|
| 99 | 62 |
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.