Quarterly Labour Force Survey 2025
Quarter 1

South Africa, 2025

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ZAF_2025_QLFS-Q1_v01_M

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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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How soon can you start work or a business (Q311bWHNSTART)

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

Overview

Valid: 74

Invalid: 66355

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Width: 16

Range: 1 - 6

Format: Numeric

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Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Within a week	10	13.5%
2	Within two weeks	2	2.7%
3	Within four weeks	5	6.8%
4	Later than four weeks from now	14	18.9%
5	No desire to work	5	6.8%
6	Do not know	38	51.4%
Sysmiss		66355

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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