Quarterly Labour Force Survey 2024
Quarter 1

South Africa, 2024

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ZAF_2024_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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Aug 20, 2024

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Main reason absent from work (Q27RSNABSENT)

Data file: qlfs-2024-q1-worker-v1.dta

Overview

Valid: 315

Invalid: 66564

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	35	11.1%
2	Vacation leave	130	41.3%
3	Caring for family or others	10	3.2%
4	Maternity or paternity leave	24	7.6%
5	Other family/community obligations	10	3.2%
6	Strike/Stay-Away/Lockout	4	1.3%
7	Problems with transport	1	0.3%
8	Bad weather	4	1.3%
9	Study or training leave	2	0.6%
11	Temporarily laid off/Reduction in economic activity	52	16.5%
12	Seasonal work	11	3.5%
13	Start a new job/business at a definite date in the future	5	1.6%
14	Other reason	27	8.6%
Sysmiss		66564

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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