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: 16825

Invalid: 218108

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Width: 2

Range: 1 - 11

Format: Numeric

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Value	Category	Cases
1	Legislators; senior officials and managers	416	2.5%
2	Professionals	406	2.4%
3	Technical and associate professionals	893	5.3%
4	Clerks	1749	10.4%
5	Service workers and shop and market sales workers	2977	17.7%
6	Skilled agricultural and fishery workers	57	0.3%
7	Craft and related trades workers	2160	12.8%
8	Plant and machine operators and assemblers	999	5.9%
9	Elementary Occupation	5638	33.5%
10	Domestic workers	1524	9.1%
11	Other	6	0%
Sysmiss		218108

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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