Quarterly Labour Force Survey 2023
Quarter 2

South Africa, 2023

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Reference ID

ZAF_2023_QLFS-Q2_v01_M

Producer(s)

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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Inactivity reason (InactReason)

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

Overview

Valid: 23160

Invalid: 43468

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 6

Format: Numeric

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Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Scholar/student	6894	29.8%
2	Home-maker	2815	12.2%
3	Health reasons	1946	8.4%
4	Too young/old/retired	6828	29.5%
5	Discouraged work-seekers	3326	14.4%
6	Other	1351	5.8%
Sysmiss		43468

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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