Quarterly Labour Force Survey 2023
Quarter 4

South Africa, 2023

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Reference ID

ZAF_2023_QLFS-Q4_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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Aug 11, 2025

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Main industry grouped (Indus)

Data file: qlfs-2023-q4-worker-v1

Overview

Valid: 16649

Invalid: 49837

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Width: 2

Range: 1 - 11

Format: Numeric

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Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Agriculture; hunting; forestry and fishing	1009	6.1%
2	Mining and quarrying	433	2.6%
3	Manufacturing	1465	8.8%
4	Electricity; gas and water supply	113	0.7%
5	Construction	1267	7.6%
6	Wholesale and retail trade	3390	20.4%
7	Transport; storage and communication	951	5.7%
8	Financial intermediation; insurance; real estate and business services	2777	16.7%
9	Community; social and personal services	4013	24.1%
10	Private households	1220	7.3%
11	Other	11	0.1%
Sysmiss		49837

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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