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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Activity before looking for work (Q37ACTPRIORJOBSEEK)

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

Overview

Valid: 7794

Invalid: 58260

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 4

Format: Numeric

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Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Working	3772	48.4%
2	Managing a home	1860	23.9%
3	Going to school	2068	26.5%
4	Other	94	1.2%
Sysmiss		58260

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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