Labour Market Dynamics in South Africa 2021

South Africa, 2021

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zaf-statssa-lmdsa-2021-v2

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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: 238

Invalid: 182314

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

loc_start_pos: 63

loc_end_pos: 63

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 9

Format: Numeric

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Value	Category	Cases
1	Scholar or student	21	8.8%
2	Housewife/homemaker (Family considerations/Child care)	68	28.6%
3	Health reasons	77	32.4%
4	Retired or too old for work	6	2.5%
5	No desire to work	6	2.5%
6	Too young to work	3	1.3%
7	Pregnancy	1	0.4%
8	Disabled or unable to work	16	6.7%
9	Other	40	16.8%
Sysmiss		182314

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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