Post Apartheid Labour Market Series 1993-2019
South Africa, 1993 - 2019
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Reference ID
ZAF_1993-2019_PALMS_v01_M
Producer(s)
Andrew Kerr, David Lam, Martin Wittenberg
Collection(s)
Metadata
Created on
Jan 27, 2012
Last modified
May 26, 2020
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Year started working for employer, LFS+QLFS only (jobstartyear)
Data file: palmsv3.3-stata11
Overview
Valid:
3544810
Invalid:
2477738
Mean:
6472.517
Type:
Discrete
Decimal:
0
Start:
113
End:
116
Width:
4
Range:
1927 - 9999
Format:
Numeric
Questions and instructions
Categories
| Value | Category | Cases | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1927 | 1 |
0%
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| 1931 | 1 |
0%
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| 1932 | 2 |
0%
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| 1933 | 1 |
0%
|
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| 1934 | 1 |
0%
|
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| 1935 | 1 |
0%
|
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| 1936 | 1 |
0%
|
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| 1937 | 1 |
0%
|
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| 1938 | 3 |
0%
|
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| 1939 | 3 |
0%
|
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| 1940 | 4 |
0%
|
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| 1941 | 10 |
0%
|
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| 1942 | 9 |
0%
|
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| 1943 | 9 |
0%
|
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| 1944 | 21 |
0%
|
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| 1945 | 9 |
0%
|
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| 1946 | 6 |
0%
|
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| 1947 | 12 |
0%
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| 1948 | 16 |
0%
|
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| 1949 | 8 |
0%
|
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| 1950 | 31 |
0%
|
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| 1951 | 9 |
0%
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| 1952 | 26 |
0%
|
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| 1953 | 32 |
0%
|
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| 1954 | 31 |
0%
|
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| 1955 | 37 |
0%
|
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| 1956 | 54 |
0%
|
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| 1957 | 50 |
0%
|
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| 1958 | 62 |
0%
|
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| 1959 | 64 |
0%
|
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| 1960 | 215 |
0%
|
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| 1961 | 108 |
0%
|
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| 1962 | 154 |
0%
|
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| 1963 | 168 |
0%
|
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| 1964 | 254 |
0%
|
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| 1965 | 318 |
0%
|
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| 1966 | 313 |
0%
|
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| 1967 | 371 |
0%
|
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| 1968 | 554 |
0%
|
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| 1969 | 655 |
0%
|
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| 1970 | 1505 |
0%
|
|
| 1971 | 1064 |
0%
|
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| 1972 | 1319 |
0%
|
|
| 1973 | 1507 |
0%
|
|
| 1974 | 1894 |
0.1%
|
|
| 1975 | 2452 |
0.1%
|
|
| 1976 | 2848 |
0.1%
|
|
| 1977 | 2597 |
0.1%
|
|
| 1978 | 3410 |
0.1%
|
|
| 1979 | 4255 |
0.1%
|
|
| 1980 | 8223 |
0.2%
|
|
| 1981 | 5975 |
0.2%
|
|
| 1982 | 7584 |
0.2%
|
|
| 1983 | 6870 |
0.2%
|
|
| 1984 | 7922 |
0.2%
|
|
| 1985 | 8695 |
0.2%
|
|
| 1986 | 9624 |
0.3%
|
|
| 1987 | 9832 |
0.3%
|
|
| 1988 | 10422 |
0.3%
|
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| 1989 | 14283 |
0.4%
|
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| 1990 | 19443 |
0.5%
|
|
| 1991 | 13336 |
0.4%
|
|
| 1992 | 15264 |
0.4%
|
|
| 1993 | 14704 |
0.4%
|
|
| 1994 | 19454 |
0.5%
|
|
| 1995 | 20761 |
0.6%
|
|
| 1996 | 23078 |
0.7%
|
|
| 1997 | 22554 |
0.6%
|
|
| 1998 | 29715 |
0.8%
|
|
| 1999 | 34230 |
1%
|
|
| 2000 | 48265 |
1.4%
|
|
| 2001 | 40169 |
1.1%
|
|
| 2002 | 39723 |
1.1%
|
|
| 2003 | 43082 |
1.2%
|
|
| 2004 | 46880 |
1.3%
|
|
| 2005 | 53126 |
1.5%
|
|
| 2006 | 59708 |
1.7%
|
|
| 2007 | 69517 |
2%
|
|
| 2008 | 75938 |
2.1%
|
|
| 2009 | 65664 |
1.9%
|
|
| 2010 | 63476 |
1.8%
|
|
| 2011 | 51509 |
1.5%
|
|
| 2012 | 51369 |
1.4%
|
|
| 2013 | 48356 |
1.4%
|
|
| 2014 | 44069 |
1.2%
|
|
| 2015 | 39567 |
1.1%
|
|
| 2016 | 31725 |
0.9%
|
|
| 2017 | 24951 |
0.7%
|
|
| 2018 | 15836 |
0.4%
|
|
| 2019 | 2753 |
0.1%
|
|
| 8888 | 8888. Not applicable | 2298443 |
64.8%
|
| 9999 | 9999. Unspecified | 2239 |
0.1%
|
| Sysmiss | 2477738 |
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.