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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Type of business account kept (Q414bBOOKTYPE)

Data file: QLFS202503

Overview

Valid: 11524

Minimum: 1

Maximum: 6

Type: Discrete

Width: 16

Format: Numeric

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Value	Category	Cases
1	A complete set of written accounts for tax purposes	5538	48.1%
2	Simplified written accounts to be submitted for tax purposes	456	4%
3	Simplified written accounts not for tax purposes	188	1.6%
4	Informal records of orders, sales, purchases	728	6.3%
5	No records are kept	1933	16.8%
6	Do not know	2681	23.3%

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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