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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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	Legislators; senior officials and managers	140	2.7%
2	Professionals	120	2.3%
3	Technical and associate professionals	254	4.9%
4	Clerks	513	10%
5	Service workers and shop and market sales workers	940	18.3%
6	Skilled agricultural and fishery workers	24	0.5%
7	Craft and related trades workers	655	12.7%
8	Plant and machine operators and assemblers	310	6%
9	Elementary Occupation	1787	34.7%
10	Domestic workers	406	7.9%
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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