Quarterly Labour Force Survey 2023
Quarter 3

South Africa, 2023

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Reference ID

ZAF_2023_QLFS-Q3_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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Aug 11, 2025

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Data file: qlfs-2023-q3-worker-v1

Overview

Valid: 18767

Invalid: 47287

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 9

Format: Numeric

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Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Scholar or student	7020	37.4%
2	Housewife/homemaker (family considerations/child care)	2427	12.9%
3	Health reasons	1245	6.6%
4	Retired or too old for work	6480	34.5%
5	No desire to work	419	2.2%
6	Too young to work	121	0.6%
7	Pregnancy	61	0.3%
8	Disabled or unable to work	513	2.7%
9	Unspecified	481	2.6%
Sysmiss		47287

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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