Quarterly Labour Force Survey 2013, Second Quarter

South Africa, 2013

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ZAF_2013_QLFS-Q2_v02_M

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Statistics South Africa

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DataFirst , University of Cape Town, South Africa

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Sep 12, 2013

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Long-term unemployment (Long_term_unempl)

Data file: qlfs_2013_02_rwt2013_F1

Overview

Valid: 86915

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 248

End: 248

Width: 1

Range: 0 - 2

Format: Numeric

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Categories

Value	Category	Cases
0	Not applicable	79445	91.4%
1	Long-term unemployment (1 year and longer)	4868	5.6%
2	Short-term unemployment (less than 1 year)	2602	3%

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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Definition

Long-term unemployment: Persons in long-term unemployment are those individuals among the unemployed who were without work and trying to find a job or start a business for one year or more.

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