Labour Market Dynamics in South Africa 2018

South Africa, 2018

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zaf-statssa-lmdsa-2018-v1

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Statistics South Africa

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South African Labour Force Survey Data African Centre of Excellence for Inequality Research

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Jul 13, 2020

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Jan 19, 2021

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How long been trying to find work (Q36TIMESEEK)

Data file: lmdsa-2018-v1.0

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Valid: 1000

Invalid: 8999

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

loc_start_pos: 57

loc_end_pos: 57

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 8

Format: Numeric

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Value	Category	Cases
1	Less than 3 months	143	14.3%
2	3 months - less than 6 months	86	8.6%
3	6 months - less than 9 months	69	6.9%
4	9 months - less than 1 year	75	7.5%
5	1 year - less than 3 years	290	29%
6	3 years - 5 years	113	11.3%
7	More than 5 years	222	22.2%
8	Do not know	2	0.2%
Sysmiss		8999

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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