Quarterly Labour Force Survey 2020, Quarter 3

South Africa, 2020

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zaf-statssa-qlfs-2020-q3-v2

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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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Nov 19, 2020

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Feb 11, 2021

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Main reason you stopped working (Q314RSNSTOPWRK)

Data file: qlfs-2020-q3-worker-v2

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Valid: 965

Invalid: 9034

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Width: 2

Range: 1 - 10

Format: Numeric

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Value	Category	Cases
1	Health reason	49	5.1%
2	Caring for own children/relatives	18	1.9%
3	Pregnancy	17	1.8%
4	Other family/community responsibilities	2	0.2%
5	Going to school	13	1.3%
6	Lost job/job ended/laid off/business sold/closed down	570	59.1%
7	Changed residence	6	0.6%
8	Dissatisfied with the job	33	3.4%
9	Retired/ too old to work	96	9.9%
10	Other	161	16.7%
Sysmiss		9034

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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