Quarterly Labour Force Survey 2025
Quarter 3

South Africa, 2025

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ZAF_2025_QLFS-Q3_v01_M

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Statistics South Africa

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DataFirst , University of Cape Town, South Africa

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Feb 10, 2026

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Data file: QLFS202503

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Valid: 18110

Minimum: 1

Maximum: 9

Type: Discrete

Width: 16

Format: Numeric

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Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Scholar or student	6495	35.9%
2	Housewife/homemaker (family considerations/child care)	2131	11.8%
3	Health reasons	1196	6.6%
4	Retired or too old for work	6754	37.3%
5	No desire to work	368	2%
6	Too young to work	108	0.6%
7	Pregnancy	49	0.3%
8	Disabled or unable to work	524	2.9%
9	Unspecified	485	2.7%

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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