Quarterly Labour Force Survey 2026
Quarter 1

South Africa, 2026

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Reference ID

ZAF_2026_QLFS-Q1_v01_M

Producer(s)

Statistics South Africa

Collection(s)

DataFirst , University of Cape Town, South Africa

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May 22, 2026

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May 22, 2026

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Type of business or enterprise (Q412dTYPEBUSNS)

Data file: qlfs-2026-q1-v1

Overview

Valid: 15567

Invalid: 47252

Minimum: 1

Maximum: 8

Mean: 3.032568895741

Standard deviation: 1.2932107967526

Type: Discrete

Width: 16

Format: Numeric

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Categories

Value	Category
1	National/Provincial/Local government
2	Government controlled
3	business (e.g. Eskom/Telkom)A private business (non-farm)
4	Non-profit organisation(NGO/CBO), church
5	A private household asa domestic worker
6	A farm
7	An international organization or a foreign embassy
8	Do not know
Sysmiss

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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