Quarterly Labour Force Survey 2025
Quarter 1

South Africa, 2025

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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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Long-term unemployment (Long_term_unempl)

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

Overview

Valid: 8086

Invalid: 58343

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Width: 16

Range: 1 - 2

Format: Numeric

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Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Long-term unemployment (1 year and longer)	6100	75.4%
2	Short-term unemployment (less than 1 year)	1986	24.6%
Sysmiss		58343

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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