Quarterly Labour Force Survey 2012, Fourth Quarter

South Africa, 2012

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ZAF_2012_QLFS-Q4_v02_M

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Statistics South Africa

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DataFirst , University of Cape Town, South Africa

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Main occupation (Occup)

Data file: QLFS_2012_04_rwt2013_F1

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Valid: 85112

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 241

End: 242

Width: 2

Range: 0 - 10

Format: Numeric

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Categories

Value	Category	Cases
0	Not applicable	63889	75.1%
1	Legislators; senior officials and managers	1571	1.8%
2	Professionals	1105	1.3%
3	Technical and associate professionals	2369	2.8%
4	Clerks	2250	2.6%
5	Service workers and shop and market sales workers	3074	3.6%
6	Skilled agricultural and fishery workers	125	0.1%
7	Craft and related trades workers	2511	3%
8	Plant and machine operators and assemblers	1718	2%
9	Elementary Occupation	4912	5.8%
10	Domestic workers	1588	1.9%

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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Occupation refers to the type of activities/work undertaken by persons working in a business/establishment/factory etc.

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