Quarterly Labour Force Survey 2021, Quarter 2

South Africa, 2021

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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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Reason not available for work (Q311RSNNOTAVAILABLE)

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

Overview

Valid: 71

Invalid: 53869

Minimum: 1

Maximum: 9

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 64

End: 64

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 9

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Scholar or student	8	11.3%
2	Housewife/homemaker (Family considerations/Child care)	24	33.8%
3	Health reasons	23	32.4%
4	Retired/Too old to work	3	4.2%
5	No desire to work	2	2.8%
7	Pregnancy	1	1.4%
8	Disabled or unable to work	4	5.6%
9	Other	6	8.5%
Sysmiss		53869

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 and were not available for work in the 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 seven days prior to the interview. For any other reason that was not specified in the given categories, there was provision to specify.

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