Quarterly Labour Force Survey 2018, Quarter 4

South Africa, 2018

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ZAF_2018_QLFS-Q4_v01_M

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Statistics South Africa

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DataFirst , University of Cape Town, South Africa

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Aug 14, 2019

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Main reason you stopped working (Q314RSNSTOPWRK)

Data file: qlfs-2018-q4-worker-1.0-stata11

Overview

Valid: 5279

Invalid: 63058

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	317	6%
2	Caring for own children/relatives	109	2.1%
3	Pregnancy	137	2.6%
4	Other family/community responsibilities	46	0.9%
5	Going to school	67	1.3%
6	Lost job/job ended/laid off/business sold/closed down	3779	71.6%
7	Changed residence	65	1.2%
8	Dissatisfied with the job	301	5.7%
9	Retired/ too old to work	354	6.7%
10	Other	104	2%
Sysmiss		63058

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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