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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How long been trying to find work (Q36TIMESEEK)

Data file: qlfs-2017-q4-worker-1.0

Overview

Valid: 6679

Invalid: 61672

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 58

End: 58

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 8

Format: Numeric

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Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Less than 3 months	782	11.7%
2	3 months - less than 6 months	417	6.2%
3	6 months - less than 9 months	389	5.8%
4	9 months - less than 1 year	548	8.2%
5	1 year - less than 3 years	1543	23.1%
6	3 years - 5 years	944	14.1%
7	More than 5 years	2030	30.4%
8	Do not know	26	0.4%
Sysmiss		61672

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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