Labour Market Dynamics in South Africa 2021

South Africa, 2021

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zaf-statssa-lmdsa-2021-v2

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Statistics South Africa

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South African Labour Force Survey Data

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Sep 18, 2023

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Data file: lmdsa-2021-v2

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Valid: 54200

Invalid: 128352

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

loc_start_pos: 56

loc_end_pos: 56

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 9

Format: Numeric

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Value	Category	Cases
1	Scholar or student	20529	37.9%
2	Housewife/homemaker (family considerations/child care)	7759	14.3%
3	Health reasons	3490	6.4%
4	Retired or too old for work	18302	33.8%
5	No desire to work	673	1.2%
6	Too young to work	325	0.6%
7	Pregnancy	86	0.2%
8	Disabled or unable to work	1351	2.5%
9	Unspecified	1685	3.1%
Sysmiss		128352

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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