Quarterly Labour Force Survey 2021, Quarter 2

South Africa, 2021

Get Microdata

Reference ID

ZAF_2021_QLFS-Q2_v01_M

Producer(s)

Statistics South Africa

Collection(s)

DataFirst , University of Cape Town, South Africa

Metadata

Documentation in PDF DDI/XML JSON

Study website

Created on

Oct 25, 2021

Last modified

Oct 25, 2021

Page views

9662

Downloads

407

Month commenced working (Q44MONTHSTART)

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

Overview

Valid: 12023

Invalid: 41917

Minimum: 1

Maximum: 12

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 100

End: 101

Width: 2

Range: 1 - 12

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	January	3642	30.3%
2	February	1213	10.1%
3	March	1431	11.9%
4	April	1187	9.9%
5	May	738	6.1%
6	June	851	7.1%
7	July	532	4.4%
8	August	551	4.6%
9	Sepember	536	4.5%
10	October	541	4.5%
11	November	435	3.6%
12	December	366	3%
Sysmiss		41917

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 members of the households in selected dwelling units aged 15 years and older, who were economically active and were working for someone for pay in the seven days prior to the interview.

Others

Notes

This question was asked to establish when people started working for the main employer for whom they were working with the aim of checking whether people were staying in one job for a long time or changing jobs often (job stability).

Back to Catalog