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Labour Force Survey 2005, March

South Africa, 2005
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Reference ID
ZAF_2005_LFS-MAR_v02_M
Producer(s)
Statistics South Africa
Collection(s)
DataFirst , University of Cape Town, South Africa
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Jan 27, 2012
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May 01, 2014
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  • LFS 2005_1
    House_v1
  • LFS 2005_1
    Person_v1
  • LFS 2005_1
    Worker_v1

Main occupation (Occup)

Data file: LFS 2005_1 Worker_v1

Overview

Valid: 74664
Invalid: 0
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Width: 8
Range: 1 - 99
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Categories
Value Category Cases
1 Legislators, senior officials and managers 1462
2%
2 Professionals 823
1.1%
3 Technical and associate professionals 2331
3.1%
4 Clerks 2203
3%
5 Service workers and shop and market sales workers 3077
4.1%
6 Skilled agricultural and fishery workers 1580
2.1%
7 Craft and related trades workers 3393
4.5%
8 Plant and machine operators and assemblers 2375
3.2%
9 Elementary Occupation 7093
9.5%
10 Domestic workers 2189
2.9%
88 Not applicable 48081
64.4%
97 Occupation not adequately defined 9
0%
99 Unspecified 48
0.1%
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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