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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DataFirst - Harmonised SA Dataset Series

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Sep 05, 2013

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population group (popgroup)

Data file: palmsv4

Overview

Valid: 7446452

Invalid: 1108

Minimum: 1

Maximum: 5

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

loc_start_pos: 67

loc_end_pos: 67

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 9

Format: Numeric

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Value	Category	Cases
1	1. african/black	5992979	80.5%
2	2. coloured	796135	10.7%
3	3. indian/asian	159859	2.1%
4	4. white	496658	6.7%
5	5. other	821	0%
9	9. unspecified	0	0%
Sysmiss		1108

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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