Quarterly Labour Force Survey 2025
Quarter 1

South Africa, 2025

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ZAF_2025_QLFS-Q1_v01_M

Producer(s)

Statistics South Africa

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DataFirst , University of Cape Town, South Africa

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Jul 08, 2025

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Jul 08, 2025

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Data file: qlfs-2025-q1-worker-v1

Overview

Valid: 18561

Invalid: 47868

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Width: 16

Range: 1 - 9

Format: Numeric

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Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Scholar or student	6713	36.2%
2	Housewife/homemaker (family considerations/child care)	2103	11.3%
3	Health reasons	1102	5.9%
4	Retired or too old for work	6837	36.8%
5	No desire to work	472	2.5%
6	Too young to work	156	0.8%
7	Pregnancy	40	0.2%
8	Disabled or unable to work	521	2.8%
9	Unspecified	617	3.3%
Sysmiss		47868

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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