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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Status in employment by type of authority- detailed (ICSE-18 ) (Ste_icse18)

Data file: QLFS202503

Overview

Valid: 16006

Minimum: 1

Maximum: 13

Type: Discrete

Width: 16

Format: Numeric

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Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Employers in corporations	178	1.1%
2	Employers in household market enterprises	553	3.5%
4	Owner-operators of corporations without employees	78	0.5%
5	Own-account workers in household market enterprises without employees	1626	10.2%
7	Dependent contractors	637	4%
8	Permanent employees	10662	66.6%
9	Fixed-term employees	1525	9.5%
10	Short-term and casual employees	317	2%
11	Paid apprentices, trainees and interns	91	0.6%
12	Employees not elsewhere classified	277	1.7%
13	Contributing family workers	62	0.4%

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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