Quarterly Labour Force Survey 2021, Quarter 2

South Africa, 2021

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Reference ID

ZAF_2021_QLFS-Q2_v01_M

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Statistics South Africa

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DataFirst , University of Cape Town, South Africa

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Oct 25, 2021

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Oct 25, 2021

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Reason for not working (Q35YNOTWRK)

Data file: qlfs-2021-q2-worker-v1

Overview

Valid: 15862

Invalid: 38078

Minimum: 1

Maximum: 9

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 57

End: 57

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 9

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Scholar or student	5935	37.4%
2	Housewife/homemaker (family considerations/child care)	2338	14.7%
3	Health reasons	1017	6.4%
4	Retired or too old for work	5381	33.9%
5	No desire to work	207	1.3%
6	Too young to work	117	0.7%
7	Pregnancy	37	0.2%
8	Disabled or unable to work	389	2.5%
9	Unspecified	441	2.8%
Sysmiss		38078

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.

Description

Universe

All household members aged 15 years and older, who did not work and did not have a job to return to in the last seven days prior to the interview.

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Notes

This was applicable to all household members aged 15 years and older who did not work and did not have a job to return to in the last seven days prior to the interview. The intention of this question was to find out the reasons people were not working in the last seven days prior to the interview. For any other reason that was not specified in the given categories, there was provision to specify. After this question, the instruction was to go to Question 3.12.

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