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
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Jan 27, 2012
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Highest level of education (waves 2016:3 to most recent QLFS) (educhigh4)
Data file: palmsv3.3-stata11
Overview
Valid:
826004
Invalid:
5196544
Mean:
24.072
Type:
Discrete
Decimal:
0
Start:
184
End:
185
Width:
2
Range:
0 - 98
Format:
Numeric
Questions and instructions
Categories
| Value | Category | Cases | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | 0. Grade R/0 | 17871 |
2.2%
|
| 1 | 1. Sub A/Grade 1 | 22424 |
2.7%
|
| 2 | 2. Sub B/Grade 2 | 24894 |
3%
|
| 3 | 3. Grade 3/Standard 1 | 27968 |
3.4%
|
| 4 | 4. Grade 4/Standard 2 | 31248 |
3.8%
|
| 5 | 5. Grade 5/Standard 3 | 29119 |
3.5%
|
| 6 | 6. Grade 6/Standard 4 | 33193 |
4%
|
| 7 | 7. Grade 7/Standard 5 | 43172 |
5.2%
|
| 8 | 8. Grade 8/Standard 6/Form 1 | 47399 |
5.7%
|
| 9 | 9. Grade 9/Standard 7/Form 2 | 48624 |
5.9%
|
| 10 | 10. Grade 10/Standard 8/Form 3 | 72368 |
8.8%
|
| 11 | 11. Grade 11/Standard 9/Form 4 | 79365 |
9.6%
|
| 12 | 12. Grade 12/Standard 10/Form 5/Matric (No Exemption) | 128757 |
15.6%
|
| 13 | 13. Grade 12/Standard 10/Form 5/Matric (Exemption/Bachelors pass) | 12398 |
1.5%
|
| 14 | 14. NTC I | 522 |
0.1%
|
| 15 | 15. NTC II | 858 |
0.1%
|
| 16 | 16. NTC III | 1810 |
0.2%
|
| 17 | 17. N4/NTC 4 | 1347 |
0.2%
|
| 18 | 18. N5 /NTC 5 | 1124 |
0.1%
|
| 19 | 19. N6/NTC 6 | 2309 |
0.3%
|
| 20 | 20. Certificate with less than Grade 12/Std 10 | 1721 |
0.2%
|
| 21 | 21. Diploma with less than Grade 12/Std 10 | 1208 |
0.1%
|
| 22 | 22. Certificate with Grade 12/Std 10 | 10072 |
1.2%
|
| 23 | 23. Diploma with Grade 12/Std 10 | 19278 |
2.3%
|
| 24 | 24. Higher Diploma | 3591 |
0.4%
|
| 25 | 25. Post Higher Diploma | 1712 |
0.2%
|
| 26 | 26. Bachelors Degree | 12710 |
1.5%
|
| 27 | 27. Bachelors Degree and PG Diploma | 2189 |
0.3%
|
| 28 | 28. Honours Degree | 3842 |
0.5%
|
| 29 | 29. Higher Degree (Masters/PhD) | 2485 |
0.3%
|
| 30 | 30. Other, specify | 3930 |
0.5%
|
| 31 | 31. Don't know | 3253 |
0.4%
|
| 98 | 98. No schooling | 133243 |
16.1%
|
| Sysmiss | 5196544 |
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.