Quarterly Labour Force Survey 2021, Quarter 2

South Africa, 2021

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Reference ID

ZAF_2021_QLFS-Q2_v01_M

Producer(s)

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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Activity before looking for work (Q37ACTPRIORJOBSEEK)

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

Overview

Valid: 6345

Invalid: 47595

Minimum: 1

Maximum: 4

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 59

End: 59

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 4

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Working	3021	47.6%
2	Managing a home	1614	25.4%
3	Going to school	1672	26.4%
4	Other	38	0.6%
Sysmiss		47595

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 also tried to look for work in the last four weeks prior to the interview.

Others

Notes

The purpose of this question is to find out the main activity a person was engaged in before starting to look for work.

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