Quarterly Labour Force Survey 2021, Quarter 1

South Africa, 2021

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ZAF_2021_QLFS-Q1_v01_M

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Statistics South Africa

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DataFirst , University of Cape Town, South Africa

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Oct 25, 2021

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Main reason absent from work (Q27RSNABSENT)

Data file: qlfs-2021-q1-worker-v1

Overview

Valid: 514

Invalid: 45188

Minimum: 1

Maximum: 14

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	15	2.9%
2	Vacation leave	165	32.1%
3	Caring for family or others(Except Maternity/Paternity leave)	1	0.2%
4	Maternity or paternity leave	18	3.5%
5	Other family/community obligations	6	1.2%
6	Strike/stay-away/lockout	3	0.6%
8	Bad weather	14	2.7%
11	Temporarily laid off/Reduction in economic activity	48	9.3%
12	Seasonal work	7	1.4%
14	Other reason	237	46.1%
Sysmiss		45188

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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