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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Long-term unemployment (long_term_unempl)

Data file: lmdsa-2021-v2

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Valid: 20698

Invalid: 161854

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

loc_start_pos: 233

loc_end_pos: 233

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 2

Format: Numeric

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Value	Category	Cases
1	Long-term unemployment (1 year and longer)	15842	76.5%
2	Short-term unemployment (less than 1 year)	4856	23.5%
Sysmiss		161854

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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