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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Jul 08, 2025

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Main reason you stopped working (Q314RSNSTOPWRK)

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

Overview

Valid: 5149

Invalid: 61280

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Width: 16

Range: 1 - 10

Format: Numeric

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Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Health reason	216	4.2%
2	Caring for own children/relatives	57	1.1%
3	Pregnancy	52	1%
4	Other family/community responsibilities	42	0.8%
5	Going to school	48	0.9%
6	Lost job/job ended/laid off/business sold/closed down	3986	77.4%
7	Changed residence	42	0.8%
8	Dissatisfied with the job	197	3.8%
9	Retired/ too old to work	385	7.5%
10	Other	124	2.4%
Sysmiss		61280

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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