Quarterly Labour Force Survey 2017, Quarter 3

South Africa, 2017

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ZAF_2017_QLFS-Q3_v01_M

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Statistics South Africa

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DataFirst , University of Cape Town, South Africa

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Jun 06, 2018

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Main reason absent from work (Q27RSNABSENT)

Data file: qlfs-2017-q3-worker-v1.0-stata11

Overview

Valid: 424

Invalid: 68835

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 38

End: 39

Width: 2

Range: 1 - 14

Format: Numeric

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Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Health reasons	36	8.5%
2	Vacation leave	228	53.8%
3	Caring for family or others(Except Maternity/Paternity leave)	4	0.9%
4	Maternity or paternity leave	34	8%
5	Other family/community obligations	8	1.9%
6	Strike/Stay-away/Lockout	2	0.5%
7	Problems with transport	0	0%
8	Bad weather	0	0%
9	Study or training leave	1	0.2%
11	Temporarily laid off/Reduction in economic activity	42	9.9%
12	Seasonal work	9	2.1%
13	Start a new job/business at a definite date in the future	4	0.9%
14	Other reason	56	13.2%
Sysmiss		68835

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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