Quarterly Labour Force Survey 2020, Quarter 2

South Africa, 2020

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Reference ID

ZAF_2020_QLFS-Q2_v01_M

Producer(s)

Statistics South Africa

Collection(s)

DataFirst , University of Cape Town, South Africa

Metadata

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Oct 14, 2020

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Identification

Survey ID number

ZAF_2020_QLFS-Q2_v01_M

Title

Quarterly Labour Force Survey 2020

Subtitle

Quarter 2

Country/Economy

Name	Country code
South Africa	ZAF

Study type

Labor Force Survey [hh/lfs]

Series Information

Statistics South Africa. Quarterly Labour Force Survey 2020: Q2 [dataset]. Version 1. Pretoria: Statistics South Africa [producer], 2020. Cape Town: DataFirst [distributor], 2020.

Abstract

The Quarterly Labour Force Survey (QLFS) is a household-based sample survey conducted by Statistics South Africa (Stats SA). It collects data on the labour market activities of individuals aged 15 years or older who live in South Africa.

Kind of Data

Sample survey data [ssd]

Unit of Analysis

Individuals

Version

Version Description

Version 01: Edited, anonymised dataset for public distribution

Version Date

2020-10-02

Version Notes

This version was downloaded by DataFirst on the 1st October 2020

Scope

Notes

For Q2 2020 individuals older than 64 were excluded due to the concern of exposing them to the covid-19 virus.

INDIVIDUALS: labour market activity, labour preferences, labour market history, demographic characteristics, marital status, employment status, education, grants, tax.

Coverage

Geographic Coverage

National coverage

Geographic Unit

Provincial and metropolitan level

Universe

The QLFS sample covers the non-institutional population of South Africa with one exception. The only institutional subpopulation included in the QLFS sample are individuals in worker's hostels. Persons living in private dwelling units within institutions are also enumerated. For example, within a school compound, one would enumerate the schoolmaster's house and teachers' accommodation because these are private dwellings. Students living in a dormitory on the school compound would, however, be excluded.

Producers and sponsors

Primary investigators

Name
Statistics South Africa

Sampling

Sampling Procedure

The samping procedure for this quarter of the QLFS had to be changed from the norm due to covid-19. In this 2020 Q2 the sample used was the same sample as from Q1 2020. Because the interviews were done telephonically, any sampling units that did not have telephones dropped out of the sample. This was adjusted for in the weighting procedure.

Weighting

Because Q2 was done telehponically, households without telephones were essentially out of scope. To account for this problem, data from Q1 were used as the benchmark to which the Q2 weights were "bias-adjusted", in terms of labour market variables (status, sector, industry and occupation) and demographic (age, race and gender) characteristics, at three geographic levels. Note that Q1 2020 was itself imputed based on Q4 2019, so those imputations from Q4 would carry forward to 2020 Q1 and in turn to 2020 Q2.

Q2 was also adjusted for non-reponse, and again to be more consistent with population totals. For more details see section 4 of the stastical release.

Survey instrument

Questionnaires

The survey questionnaire consists of five section:
Section 1: Biographical information (marital status, language, migration, education, training, literacy, etc.)
Section 2: Economic activities for persons aged 15 years and older
Section 3: Unemployment and economic inactivity for persons aged 15 years and older
Section 4: Main work activities in the last week for persons aged 15 years and older
Section 5: Earnings in the main job for employees, employers and own-account workers aged 15 years and older

Data collection

Dates of Data Collection

Start	End
2020-04	2020-06

Data Collection Notes

This QLFS used Computer Assisted Telephone Interviewing (CATI) instead of face-to-face interviews because of the covid-19 pandemic.

Data appraisal

Data Appraisal

COVID 19 Affected data collection for QLFS 2020 Q2. Please see the data collection and sampling sections for more on this, and consult the statistical release for further information.

Access policy

Access conditions

Public use files, available to all

Citation requirements

Statistics South Africa. Quarterly Labour Force Survey 2020: Q2 [dataset]. Version 1. Pretoria: Statistics South Africa [producer], 2020. Cape Town: DataFirst [distributor], 2020.

Access authority

Name	Affiliation	URL	Email
DataFirst	University of Cape Town		support@data1st.org

Contacts

Name	Affiliation	Email
DataFirst Helpdesk	University of Cape Town	support@data1st.org

Metadata production

DDI Document ID

DDI_ZAF_2020_QLFS-Q2_v01_M

Producers

Name	Affiliation	Role
DataFirst	University of Cape Town	DDI Producer

Date of Metadata Production

2020-10-02

Metadata version

DDI Document version

Version 02: This metadata was downloaded from DataFirst microdata repository website. The following two metadata information have been edited – Document and Survey ID.

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