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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type of business where person works (qlfs) (businesstype3)

Data file: palmsv4

Overview

Valid: 2858689

Invalid: 4588871

Minimum: 1

Maximum: 9

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

loc_start_pos: 158

loc_end_pos: 158

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 9

Format: Numeric

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Value	Category	Cases
1	1. national/provincial/local government	210263	7.4%
2	2. government controlled business	24404	0.9%
3	3. a private enterprise	899816	31.5%
4	4. non-profit organisation (ngo/cbo)	16715	0.6%
5	5. a private household	131880	4.6%
6	6. do not know	2526	0.1%
8		1573061	55%
9		24	0%
Sysmiss		4588871

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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