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 you stopped working (Q314RSNSTOPWRK)

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

Overview

Valid: 5134

Invalid: 61352

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Width: 2

Range: 1 - 10

Format: Numeric

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Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Health reason	217	4.2%
2	Caring for own children/relatives	65	1.3%
3	Pregnancy	68	1.3%
4	Other family/community responsibilities	42	0.8%
5	Going to school	36	0.7%
6	Lost job/job ended/laid off/business sold/closed down	3987	77.7%
7	Changed residence	40	0.8%
8	Dissatisfied with the job	215	4.2%
9	Retired/ too old to work	324	6.3%
10	Other	140	2.7%
Sysmiss		61352

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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