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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Main reason absent from work (Q27RSNABSENT)

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

Overview

Valid: 317

Invalid: 66112

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Width: 16

Range: 1 - 14

Format: Numeric

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Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Health reasons	33	10.4%
2	Vacation leave	150	47.3%
3	Caring for family or others	5	1.6%
4	Maternity or paternity leave	19	6%
5	Other family/community obligations	3	0.9%
8	Bad weather	3	0.9%
11	Temporarily laid off/Reduction in economic activity	61	19.2%
12	Seasonal work	9	2.8%
13	Start a new job/business at a definite date in the future	4	1.3%
14	Other reason	30	9.5%
Sysmiss		66112

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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