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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Main reason you stopped working (Q314RSNSTOPWRK)

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

Overview

Valid: 4594

Invalid: 49346

Minimum: 1

Maximum: 10

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 68

End: 69

Width: 2

Range: 1 - 10

Format: Numeric

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Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Health reason	217	4.7%
2	Caring for own children/relatives	61	1.3%
3	Pregnancy	60	1.3%
4	Other family/community responsibilities	31	0.7%
5	Going to school	56	1.2%
6	Lost job/job ended/laid off/business sold/closed down	3366	73.3%
7	Changed residence	24	0.5%
8	Dissatisfied with the job	166	3.6%
9	Retired/ too old to work	349	7.6%
10	Other	264	5.7%
Sysmiss		49346

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 had not been working.

Others

Notes

The purpose of this question was to establish the reasons people stopped working in their last jobs. For any other reason that was not specified in the given categories, there was provision to specify.

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