Labour Market Dynamics in South Africa 2022

South Africa, 2022

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ZAF_2022_LMDSA_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 12, 2025

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Data file: lmdsa-2022-v1

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Valid: 54095

Invalid: 180838

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Width: 2

Range: 1 - 11

Format: Numeric

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Value	Category	Cases
1	Legislators; senior officials and managers	4167	7.7%
2	Professionals	3189	5.9%
3	Technical and associate professionals	4843	9%
4	Clerks	5310	9.8%
5	Service workers and shop and market sales workers	9213	17%
6	Skilled agricultural and fishery workers	313	0.6%
7	Craft and related trades workers	5644	10.4%
8	Plant and machine operators and assemblers	4427	8.2%
9	Elementary Occupation	13653	25.2%
10	Domestic workers	3328	6.2%
11	Other	8	0%
Sysmiss		180838

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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