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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Time since last worked (Q313TIMEUNEMPLOY)

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

Overview

Valid: 12084

Invalid: 41856

Minimum: 1

Maximum: 8

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 67

End: 67

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 8

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Less than 3 months	711	5.9%
2	3 months - less than 6 months	444	3.7%
3	6 months - less than 9 months	338	2.8%
4	9 months - less than 1 year	382	3.2%
5	1 year - less than 3 years	1916	15.9%
6	3 years - 5 years	796	6.6%
7	More than 5 years	7490	62%
8	Do not know	7	0.1%
Sysmiss		41856

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 have jobs to return to and had not worked for pay, profit or family gain in the last four weeks prior to the interview, and who were not looking for work.

Others

Notes

The aim of this question was to find out when last a person had worked. The enumerator was asked to probe for more information since some people are usually uncertain of the required information.

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