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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- palmsv4
- palmsv4incomes
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type of business where person works (waves 01:2 to 07:2) (businesstype2)
Data file: palmsv4
Overview
Valid:
935220
Invalid:
6512340
Minimum:
1
Maximum:
99
Type:
Discrete
Decimal:
0
loc_start_pos:
156
loc_end_pos:
157
Width:
2
Range:
1 - 99
Format:
Numeric
Questions and instructions
Categories
| Value | Category | Cases | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1. central government | 7824 |
0.8%
|
| 2 | 2. provincial government | 32101 |
3.4%
|
| 3 | 3. local government | 10187 |
1.1%
|
| 4 | 4. a government enterprise (transnet, telkom, etc.) | 6587 |
0.7%
|
| 5 | 5. a club, community organisation, welfare organisation,ngo, | 3402 |
0.4%
|
| 6 | 6. a co-operative, self-help association, labour union, prof | 5330 |
0.6%
|
| 7 | 7. a private business or a private household | 226266 |
24.2%
|
| 8 | 8. self-employed | 50252 |
5.4%
|
| 9 | 9. don | 576 |
0.1%
|
| 88 | 88. not applicable | 591875 |
63.3%
|
| 99 | 99. unspecified | 820 |
0.1%
|
| Sysmiss | 6512340 |
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.