Quarterly Labour Force Survey 2017, Quarter 4

South Africa, 2017

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ZAF_2017_QLFS-Q4_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-q4-worker-1.0

Overview

Valid: 298

Invalid: 68053

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	44	14.8%
2	Vacation leave	136	45.6%
3	Caring for family or others(Except Maternity/Paternity leave)	4	1.3%
4	Maternity or paternity leave	29	9.7%
5	Other family/community obligations	7	2.3%
6	Strike/Stay-away/Lockout	1	0.3%
8	Bad weather	5	1.7%
9	Study or training leave	1	0.3%
11	Temporarily laid off/Reduction in economic activity	38	12.8%
12	Seasonal work	5	1.7%
13	Start a new job/business at a definite date in the future	2	0.7%
14	Other reason	26	8.7%
Sysmiss		68053

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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