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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time since you last worked (qlfs) (whenlastjob_qlfs)
Data file: palmsv4
Overview
Valid:
2733815
Invalid:
4713745
Minimum:
0
Maximum:
99
Type:
Discrete
Decimal:
0
loc_start_pos:
195
loc_end_pos:
196
Width:
2
Range:
0 - 99
Format:
Numeric
Questions and instructions
Categories
| Value | Category | Cases | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | 0. not applicable | 1678666 |
61.4%
|
| 1 | 1. less than 3 months | 81258 |
3%
|
| 2 | 2. 3 months - less than 6 months | 54300 |
2%
|
| 3 | 3. 6 months - less than 9 months | 40214 |
1.5%
|
| 4 | 4. 9 months - less than 1 year | 40018 |
1.5%
|
| 5 | 5. 1 year - less than 3 years | 122853 |
4.5%
|
| 6 | 6. 3 years - 5 years | 60334 |
2.2%
|
| 7 | 7. more than 5 years | 655549 |
24%
|
| 8 | 8. do not know | 613 |
0%
|
| 99 | 10 |
0%
|
|
| Sysmiss | 4713745 |
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.