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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Main reason you stopped working (Q314RSNSTOPWRK)

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

Overview

Valid: 999

Invalid: 9000

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

loc_start_pos: 68

loc_end_pos: 69

Width: 2

Range: 1 - 10

Format: Numeric

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Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Health reason	69	6.9%
2	Caring for own children/relatives	22	2.2%
3	Pregnancy	35	3.5%
4	Other family/community responsibilities	10	1%
5	Going to school	12	1.2%
6	Lost job/job ended/laid off/business sold/closed down	651	65.2%
7	Changed residence	19	1.9%
8	Dissatisfied with the job	57	5.7%
9	Retired/ too old to work	97	9.7%
10	Other	27	2.7%
Sysmiss		9000

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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