Quarterly Labour Force Survey 2023
Quarter 4

South Africa, 2023

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Reference ID

ZAF_2023_QLFS-Q4_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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How long been trying to find work (Q36TIMESEEK)

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

Overview

Valid: 7807

Invalid: 58679

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 8

Format: Numeric

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Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Less than 3 months	827	10.6%
2	3 months - less than 6 months	388	5%
3	6 months - less than 9 months	268	3.4%
4	9 months - less than 1 year	404	5.2%
5	1 year - less than 3 years	1651	21.1%
6	3 years - 5 years	1061	13.6%
7	More than 5 years	3181	40.7%
8	Do not know	27	0.3%
Sysmiss		58679

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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