Quarterly Labour Force Survey 2023
Quarter 2

South Africa, 2023

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ZAF_2023_QLFS-Q2_v01_M

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Statistics South Africa

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DataFirst , University of Cape Town, South Africa

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Aug 11, 2025

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Time since last worked (Q313TIMEUNEMPLOY)

Data file: qlfs-2023-q2-worker-v1

Overview

Valid: 13744

Invalid: 52884

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Width: 2

Range: 1 - 8

Format: Numeric

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Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Less than 3 months	949	6.9%
2	3 months - less than 6 months	594	4.3%
3	6 months - less than 9 months	375	2.7%
4	9 months - less than 1 year	401	2.9%
5	1 year - less than 3 years	1622	11.8%
6	3 years - 5 years	874	6.4%
7	More than 5 years	8924	64.9%
8	Do not know	5	0%
Sysmiss		52884

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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