Quarterly Labour Force Survey 2018, Quarter 1

South Africa, 2018

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ZAF_2018_QLFS-Q1_v01_M

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Statistics South Africa

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DataFirst , University of Cape Town, South Africa

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Sep 06, 2018

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Main reason absent from work (Q27RSNABSENT)

Data file: QLFS 2018-Q1 Worker v1.0 Stata11

Overview

Valid: 563

Invalid: 68411

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 38

End: 39

Width: 2

Range: 1 - 14

Format: Numeric

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Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Health reasons	29	5.2%
2	Vacation leave	395	70.2%
3	Caring for family or others(Except Maternity/Paternity leave)	4	0.7%
4	Maternity or paternity leave	27	4.8%
5	Other family/community obligations	5	0.9%
6	Strike/Stay-away/Lockout	4	0.7%
8	Bad weather	1	0.2%
9	Study or training leave	3	0.5%
10	Unrest (Violence)	2	0.4%
11	Temporarily laid off/Reduction in economic activity	57	10.1%
12	Seasonal work	1	0.2%
13	Start a new job/business at a definite date in the future	6	1.1%
14	Other reason	29	5.2%
Sysmiss		68411

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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