Quarterly Labour Force Survey 2021, Quarter 3

South Africa, 2021

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ZAF_2021_QLFS-Q3_v01_M

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Statistics South Africa

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DataFirst , University of Cape Town, South Africa

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Feb 16, 2022

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Main reason absent from work (Q27RSNABSENT)

Data file: qlfs-2021-q3-worker-v1

Overview

Valid: 316

Invalid: 43521

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	14	4.4%
2	Vacation leave	83	26.3%
4	Maternity or paternity leave	11	3.5%
5	Other family/community obligations	7	2.2%
6	Strike/stay-away/lockout	31	9.8%
8	Bad weather	1	0.3%
10	Unrest(Violence)	39	12.3%
11	Temporarily laid off/Reduction in economic activity	22	7%
12	Seasonal work	10	3.2%
13	Start a new job/business at a definite date in the future	1	0.3%
14	Other reason	97	30.7%
Sysmiss		43521

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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