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

Overview

Valid: 5660

Invalid: 63314

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 68

End: 69

Width: 2

Range: 1 - 10

Format: Numeric

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Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Health reason	389	6.9%
2	Caring for own children/relatives	101	1.8%
3	Pregnancy	123	2.2%
4	Other family/community responsibilities	63	1.1%
5	Going to school	86	1.5%
6	Lost job/job ended/laid off/business sold/closed down	4047	71.5%
7	Changed residence	68	1.2%
8	Dissatisfied with the job	300	5.3%
9	Retired/ too old to work	383	6.8%
10	Other	100	1.8%
Sysmiss		63314

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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