Quarterly Labor Force Survey 2025
Quarter 2

South Africa, 2025

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Reference ID

ZAF_2025_QLFS-Q2_v01_M

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Statistics South Africa

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DataFirst , University of Cape Town, South Africa

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Oct 20, 2025

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Oct 20, 2025

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Main reason absent from work (Q27RSNABSENT)

Data file: qlfs-2025-q2-v1

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 38

End: 39

Width: 2

Format: Numeric

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Categories

Value	Category
1	Health reasons
2	Vacation leave
3	Caring for family or others
4	Maternity or paternity leave
5	Other family/community obligations
6	Strike/Stay-Away/Lockout
8	Bad weather
9	Study or training leave
11	Temporarily laid off/Reduction in economic activity
12	Seasonal work
13	Start a new job/business at a definite date in the future
14	Other reason
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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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