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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Data file: lmdsa-2018-v1.0

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Valid: 1019

Invalid: 8980

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

loc_start_pos: 236

loc_end_pos: 237

Width: 2

Range: 1 - 11

Format: Numeric

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Value	Category	Cases
1	Legislators; senior officials and managers	28	2.7%
2	Professionals	31	3%
3	Technical and associate professionals	64	6.3%
4	Clerks	123	12.1%
5	Service workers and shop and market sales workers	180	17.7%
6	Skilled agricultural and fishery workers	5	0.5%
7	Craft and related trades workers	123	12.1%
8	Plant and machine operators and assemblers	54	5.3%
9	Elementary Occupation	338	33.2%
10	Domestic workers	72	7.1%
11	Other occupation	1	0.1%
Sysmiss		8980

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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