Quarterly Labour Force Survey 2023
Quarter 3

South Africa, 2023

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ZAF_2023_QLFS-Q3_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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Data file: qlfs-2023-q3-worker-v1

Overview

Valid: 4958

Invalid: 61096

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Width: 2

Range: 1 - 11

Format: Numeric

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Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Agriculture; hunting and forestry	394	7.9%
2	Mining	96	1.9%
3	Manufacturing	440	8.9%
4	Electricity; gas and water	28	0.6%
5	Construction	652	13.2%
6	Wholesale and retail trade	920	18.6%
7	Transport; storage and communication	242	4.9%
8	Finance and business services	569	11.5%
9	Community; social and personal services	1069	21.6%
10	Private households	532	10.7%
11	Other	16	0.3%
Sysmiss		61096

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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