Quarterly Labour Force Survey 2023
Quarter 4

South Africa, 2023

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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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Main occupation grouped (Occup)

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	Legislators; senior officials and managers	1363	8.2%
2	Professionals	1212	7.3%
3	Technical and associate professionals	1396	8.4%
4	Clerks	1664	10%
5	Service workers and shop and market sales workers	2887	17.3%
6	Skilled agricultural and fishery workers	77	0.5%
7	Craft and related trades workers	1682	10.1%
8	Plant and machine operators and assemblers	1270	7.6%
9	Elementary Occupation	4138	24.9%
10	Domestic workers	955	5.7%
11	Other	5	0%
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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