Quarterly Labour Force Survey 2024
Quarter 3

South Africa, 2024

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ZAF_2024_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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May 05, 2025

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Main reason absent from work (Q27RSNABSENT)

Data file: qlfs-2024-q3-worker-v1

Overview

Valid: 282

Invalid: 66123

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Width: 2

Range: 1 - 14

Format: Numeric

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Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Health reasons	34	12.1%
2	Vacation leave	110	39%
3	Caring for family or others	4	1.4%
4	Maternity or paternity leave	27	9.6%
5	Other family/community obligations	10	3.5%
6	Strike/Stay-Away/Lockout	1	0.4%
8	Bad weather	8	2.8%
9	Study or training leave	1	0.4%
11	Temporarily laid off/Reduction in economic activity	43	15.2%
12	Seasonal work	3	1.1%
13	Start a new job/business at a definite date in the future	4	1.4%
14	Other reason	37	13.1%
Sysmiss		66123

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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