Quarterly Labour Force Survey 2012, Third Quarter

South Africa, 2012

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ZAF_2012_QLFS-Q3_v02_M

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Statistics South Africa

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DataFirst , University of Cape Town, South Africa

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Main occupation grouped (Occup)

Data file: QLFS_2012_03_rwt2013_F1

Overview

Valid: 85760

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 238

End: 239

Width: 2

Range: 0 - 10

Format: Numeric

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Categories

Value	Category	Cases
0	Not applicable	64437	75.1%
1	Legislators; senior officials and managers	1606	1.9%
2	Professionals	1167	1.4%
3	Technical and associate professionals	2426	2.8%
4	Clerks	2187	2.6%
5	Service workers and shop and market sales workers	3137	3.7%
6	Skilled agricultural and fishery workers	148	0.2%
7	Craft and related trades workers	2477	2.9%
8	Plant and machine operators and assemblers	1715	2%
9	Elementary Occupation	4842	5.6%
10	Domestic workers	1618	1.9%

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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Definition

Occupation refers to the type of activities/work undertaken by persons working in a business/establishment/factory etc.

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