Quarterly Labour Force Survey 2023
Quarter 1

South Africa, 2023

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ZAF_2023_QLFS-Q1_v01_M

Producer(s)

Statistics South Africa

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DataFirst , University of Cape Town, South Africa

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Jul 26, 2023

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Jul 26, 2023

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Data file: qlfs-2023-q1-worker-v1

Overview

Valid: 18594

Invalid: 46733

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 9

Format: Numeric

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Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Scholar or student	6542	35.2%
2	Housewife/homemaker (family considerations/child care)	2487	13.4%
3	Health reasons	1205	6.5%
4	Retired or too old for work	6728	36.2%
5	No desire to work	319	1.7%
6	Too young to work	124	0.7%
7	Pregnancy	63	0.3%
8	Disabled or unable to work	530	2.9%
9	Unspecified	596	3.2%
Sysmiss		46733

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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