Quarterly Labour Force Survey 2020, Quarter 2
South Africa, 2020
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ZAF_2020_QLFS-Q2_v01_M
Quarterly Labour Force Survey 2020
Quarter 2
| Name | Country code |
|---|---|
| South Africa | ZAF |
Labor Force Survey [hh/lfs]
Statistics South Africa. Quarterly Labour Force Survey 2020: Q2 [dataset]. Version 1. Pretoria: Statistics South Africa [producer], 2020. Cape Town: DataFirst [distributor], 2020.
Sample survey data [ssd]
Individuals
Version
Version 01: Edited, anonymised dataset for public distribution
2020-10-02
This version was downloaded by DataFirst on the 1st October 2020
Scope
For Q2 2020 individuals older than 64 were excluded due to the concern of exposing them to the covid-19 virus.
INDIVIDUALS: labour market activity, labour preferences, labour market history, demographic characteristics, marital status, employment status, education, grants, tax.
Coverage
National coverage
Provincial and metropolitan level
The QLFS sample covers the non-institutional population of South Africa with one exception. The only institutional subpopulation included in the QLFS sample are individuals in worker's hostels. Persons living in private dwelling units within institutions are also enumerated. For example, within a school compound, one would enumerate the schoolmaster's house and teachers' accommodation because these are private dwellings. Students living in a dormitory on the school compound would, however, be excluded.
Producers and sponsors
| Name |
|---|
| Statistics South Africa |
Sampling
The samping procedure for this quarter of the QLFS had to be changed from the norm due to covid-19. In this 2020 Q2 the sample used was the same sample as from Q1 2020. Because the interviews were done telephonically, any sampling units that did not have telephones dropped out of the sample. This was adjusted for in the weighting procedure.
Because Q2 was done telehponically, households without telephones were essentially out of scope. To account for this problem, data from Q1 were used as the benchmark to which the Q2 weights were "bias-adjusted", in terms of labour market variables (status, sector, industry and occupation) and demographic (age, race and gender) characteristics, at three geographic levels. Note that Q1 2020 was itself imputed based on Q4 2019, so those imputations from Q4 would carry forward to 2020 Q1 and in turn to 2020 Q2.
Q2 was also adjusted for non-reponse, and again to be more consistent with population totals. For more details see section 4 of the stastical release.
Survey instrument
The survey questionnaire consists of five section:
Section 1: Biographical information (marital status, language, migration, education, training, literacy, etc.)
Section 2: Economic activities for persons aged 15 years and older
Section 3: Unemployment and economic inactivity for persons aged 15 years and older
Section 4: Main work activities in the last week for persons aged 15 years and older
Section 5: Earnings in the main job for employees, employers and own-account workers aged 15 years and older
Data collection
| Start | End |
|---|---|
| 2020-04 | 2020-06 |
This QLFS used Computer Assisted Telephone Interviewing (CATI) instead of face-to-face interviews because of the covid-19 pandemic.
Data appraisal
COVID 19 Affected data collection for QLFS 2020 Q2. Please see the data collection and sampling sections for more on this, and consult the statistical release for further information.
Data Access
| Name | Affiliation | URL | |
|---|---|---|---|
| DataFirst | University of Cape Town | http://www.datafirst.uct.ac.za | support@data1st.org |
Public use files, available to all
Statistics South Africa. Quarterly Labour Force Survey 2020: Q2 [dataset]. Version 1. Pretoria: Statistics South Africa [producer], 2020. Cape Town: DataFirst [distributor], 2020.
Contacts
| Name | Affiliation | |
|---|---|---|
| DataFirst Helpdesk | University of Cape Town | support@data1st.org |
Metadata production
DDI_ZAF_2020_QLFS-Q2_v01_M
| Name | Affiliation | Role |
|---|---|---|
| DataFirst | University of Cape Town | DDI Producer |
2020-10-02
Metadata version
Version 02: This metadata was downloaded from DataFirst microdata repository website. The following two metadata information have been edited – Document and Survey ID.