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 account kept (Q414bBOOKTYPE)

Data file: qlfs-2026-q1-v1

Overview

Valid: 11322

Invalid: 51497

Minimum: 1

Maximum: 6

Mean: 2.9030206677266

Standard deviation: 2.159146351327

Type: Discrete

Width: 16

Format: Numeric

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Categories

Value	Category
1	A complete set of written accounts for tax purposes
2	Simplified written accounts to be submitted for tax purposes
3	Simplified written accounts not for tax purposes
4	Informal records of orders, sales, purchases
5	No records are kept
6	Do not know
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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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