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 reason absent from work (Q27RSNABSENT)

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

Overview

Valid: 231

Invalid: 66255

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Width: 2

Range: 1 - 14

Format: Numeric

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Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Health reasons	33	14.3%
2	Vacation leave	80	34.6%
3	Caring for family or others	4	1.7%
4	Maternity or paternity leave	14	6.1%
5	Other family/community obligations	6	2.6%
8	Bad weather	1	0.4%
9	Study or training leave	2	0.9%
11	Temporarily laid off/Reduction in economic activity	41	17.7%
12	Seasonal work	11	4.8%
13	Start a new job/business at a definite date in the future	5	2.2%
14	Other reason	34	14.7%
Sysmiss		66255

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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