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 you stopped working (Q314RSNSTOPWRK)

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

Overview

Valid: 4115

Invalid: 41587

Minimum: 1

Maximum: 10

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 68

End: 69

Width: 2

Range: 1 - 10

Format: Numeric

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Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Health reason	180	4.4%
2	Caring for own children/relatives	45	1.1%
3	Pregnancy	59	1.4%
4	Other family/community responsibilities	20	0.5%
5	Going to school	42	1%
6	Lost job/job ended/laid off/business sold/closed down	2902	70.5%
7	Changed residence	27	0.7%
8	Dissatisfied with the job	135	3.3%
9	Retired/ too old to work	328	8%
10	Other	377	9.2%
Sysmiss		41587

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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