Quarterly Labour Force Survey 2019, Quarter 1

South Africa, 2019

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zaf-statssa-qlfs-2019-q1-v1

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Statistics South Africa

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Labour Force Survey/ Quarterly Labour Force Survey/ Labour Market Dynamics in South Africa

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Jun 24, 2019

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Sep 10, 2020

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Data file: qlfs-2019-q1-worker-v1

Overview

Valid: 2857

Invalid: 7142

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

loc_start_pos: 57

loc_end_pos: 57

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 9

Format: Numeric

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Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Scholar or student	820	28.7%
2	Housewife/homemaker (family considerations/child care)	483	16.9%
3	Health reasons	255	8.9%
4	Retired or too old for work	1091	38.2%
5	No desire to work	66	2.3%
6	Too young to work	17	0.6%
7	Pregnancy	12	0.4%
8	Disabled or unable to work	79	2.8%
9	Unspecified	34	1.2%
Sysmiss		7142

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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