Quarterly Labour Force Survey 2025
Quarter 1

South Africa, 2025

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Reference ID

ZAF_2025_QLFS-Q1_v01_M

Producer(s)

Statistics South Africa

Collection(s)

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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Activity before looking for work (Q37ACTPRIORJOBSEEK)

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

Overview

Valid: 8106

Invalid: 58323

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Width: 16

Range: 1 - 4

Format: Numeric

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Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Working	3771	46.5%
2	Managing a home	2045	25.2%
3	Going to school	2165	26.7%
4	Other	125	1.5%
Sysmiss		58323

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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