Quarterly Labour Force Survey 2024
Quarter 4

South Africa, 2024

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ZAF_2024_QLFS-Q4_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-q4-worker-v1

Overview

Valid: 224

Invalid: 65941

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Width: 16

Range: 1 - 14

Format: Numeric

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Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Health reasons	29	12.9%
2	Vacation leave	71	31.7%
3	Caring for family or others	5	2.2%
4	Maternity or paternity leave	22	9.8%
5	Other family/community obligations	9	4%
8	Bad weather	4	1.8%
9	Study or training leave	4	1.8%
11	Temporarily laid off/Reduction in economic activity	42	18.8%
12	Seasonal work	10	4.5%
13	Start a new job/business at a definite date in the future	3	1.3%
14	Other reason	25	11.2%
Sysmiss		65941

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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