Quarterly Labour Force Survey 2018, Quarter 4

South Africa, 2018

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ZAF_2018_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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Main reason absent from work (Q27RSNABSENT)

Data file: qlfs-2018-q4-worker-1.0-stata11

Overview

Valid: 288

Invalid: 68049

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	40	13.9%
2	Vacation leave	119	41.3%
3	Caring for family or others(Except Maternity/Paternity leave)	3	1%
4	Maternity or paternity leave	39	13.5%
5	Other family/community obligations	2	0.7%
6	Strike/Stay-away/Lockout	4	1.4%
8	Bad weather	2	0.7%
9	Study or training leave	8	2.8%
10	Unrest (Violence)	0	0%
11	Temporarily laid off/Reduction in economic activity	31	10.8%
12	Seasonal work	11	3.8%
13	Start a new job/business at a definite date in the future	6	2.1%
14	Other reason	23	8%
Sysmiss		68049

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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