Post Apartheid Labour Market Series 1993-2025

South Africa, 1993 - 2025

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zaf-df-palms-1993-2025-v4

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Andrew Kerr, David Lam, Martin Wittenberg

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Sep 05, 2013

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earnings period, self-employed, ohs only (earnperiod_self)

Data file: palmsv4incomes

Overview

Valid: 19930

Invalid: 2313509

Minimum: 1

Maximum: 4

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

loc_start_pos: 21

loc_end_pos: 21

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 4

Format: Numeric

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Value	Category	Cases
1	1. per day	353	1.8%
2	2. per week	3659	18.4%
3	3. per month	13715	68.8%
4	4. per year	2203	11.1%
Sysmiss		2313509

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.

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