Quarterly Labour Force Survey 2024
Quarter 1

South Africa, 2024

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Reference ID

ZAF_2024_QLFS-Q1_v01_M

Producer(s)

Statistics South Africa

Collection(s)

DataFirst , University of Cape Town, South Africa

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Aug 20, 2024

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Aug 20, 2024

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Reason for not working (Q35YNOTWRK)

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

Overview

Valid: 18850

Invalid: 48029

Minimum: 1

Maximum: 9

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 57

End: 57

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 9

Format: Numeric

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Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Scholar or student	6921	36.7%
2	Housewife/homemaker (family considerations/child care)	2299	12.2%
3	Health reasons	1222	6.5%
4	Retired or too old for work	6639	35.2%
5	No desire to work	443	2.4%
6	Too young to work	135	0.7%
7	Pregnancy	57	0.3%
8	Disabled or unable to work	488	2.6%
9	Unspecified	646	3.4%
Sysmiss		48029

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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