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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Data file: qlfs-2024-q4-worker-v1

Overview

Valid: 5038

Invalid: 61127

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Width: 16

Range: 1 - 10

Format: Numeric

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Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Legislators; senior officials and managers	112	2.2%
2	Professionals	116	2.3%
3	Technical and associate professionals	280	5.6%
4	Clerks	429	8.5%
5	Service workers and shop and market sales workers	985	19.6%
6	Skilled agricultural and fishery workers	19	0.4%
7	Craft and related trades workers	680	13.5%
8	Plant and machine operators and assemblers	330	6.6%
9	Elementary Occupation	1709	33.9%
10	Domestic workers	378	7.5%
Sysmiss		61127

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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