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 occupation grouped (Occup)

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

Overview

Valid: 16401

Invalid: 50028

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	1274	7.8%
2	Professionals	862	5.3%
3	Technical and associate professionals	1405	8.6%
4	Clerks	1760	10.7%
5	Service workers and shop and market sales workers	2924	17.8%
6	Skilled agricultural and fishery workers	75	0.5%
7	Craft and related trades workers	1795	10.9%
8	Plant and machine operators and assemblers	1302	7.9%
9	Elementary Occupation	4106	25%
10	Domestic workers	898	5.5%
Sysmiss		50028

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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