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
Last modified
Nov 24, 2025
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- palmsv4
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occupation of previous job, 1 digit code (lfs and qlfs) (prevocccode)
Data file: palmsv4
Overview
Valid:
2340151
Invalid:
5107409
Minimum:
0
Maximum:
11
Type:
Discrete
Decimal:
0
loc_start_pos:
221
loc_end_pos:
222
Width:
2
Range:
0 - 11
Format:
Numeric
Questions and instructions
Categories
| Value | Category | Cases | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | 0. not applicable | 1948422 |
83.3%
|
| 1 | 1. legislators, senior officials and managers | 9593 |
0.4%
|
| 2 | 2. professionals | 8084 |
0.3%
|
| 3 | 3. technical and associate professionals | 21462 |
0.9%
|
| 4 | 4. clerks | 38217 |
1.6%
|
| 5 | 5. service workers and shop and market sales workers | 60943 |
2.6%
|
| 6 | 6. skilled agricultural and fishery workers | 1779 |
0.1%
|
| 7 | 7. craft and related trades workers | 56421 |
2.4%
|
| 8 | 8. plant and machine operators and assemblers | 26933 |
1.2%
|
| 9 | 9. elementary occupation | 125639 |
5.4%
|
| 10 | 10. domestic workers | 42389 |
1.8%
|
| 11 | 269 |
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.