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

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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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Time since last worked (Q313TIMEUNEMPLOY)

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

Overview

Valid: 14506

Invalid: 51923

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Width: 16

Range: 1 - 8

Format: Numeric

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Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Less than 3 months	1139	7.9%
2	3 months - less than 6 months	628	4.3%
3	6 months - less than 9 months	409	2.8%
4	9 months - less than 1 year	448	3.1%
5	1 year - less than 3 years	1631	11.2%
6	3 years - 5 years	887	6.1%
7	More than 5 years	9357	64.5%
8	Do not know	7	0%
Sysmiss		51923

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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