Quarterly Labour Force Survey 2024
Quarter 3

South Africa, 2024

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Reference ID

ZAF_2024_QLFS-Q3_v01_M

Producer(s)

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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May 05, 2025

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

Overview

Valid: 18535

Invalid: 47870

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 9

Format: Numeric

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Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Scholar or student	6972	37.6%
2	Housewife/homemaker (family considerations/child care)	2109	11.4%
3	Health reasons	1129	6.1%
4	Retired or too old for work	6664	36%
5	No desire to work	412	2.2%
6	Too young to work	140	0.8%
7	Pregnancy	56	0.3%
8	Disabled or unable to work	530	2.9%
9	Unspecified	523	2.8%
Sysmiss		47870

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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