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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Main reason absent from work (Q27RSNABSENT)

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

Overview

Valid: 265

Invalid: 66363

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Width: 2

Range: 1 - 14

Format: Numeric

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Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Health reasons	28	10.6%
2	Vacation leave	111	41.9%
3	Caring for family or others	5	1.9%
4	Maternity or paternity leave	28	10.6%
5	Other family/community obligations	5	1.9%
6	Strike/stay-away/lockout	3	1.1%
8	Bad weather	2	0.8%
9	Study or training leave	1	0.4%
10	Unrest(Violence)	1	0.4%
11	Temporarily laid off/Reduction in economic activity	42	15.8%
12	Seasonal work	15	5.7%
13	Start a new job/business at a definite date in the future	1	0.4%
14	Other reason	23	8.7%
Sysmiss		66363

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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