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

Overview

Valid: 12023

Invalid: 41917

Minimum: 1

Maximum: 4

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 102

End: 102

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 4

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Working for someone else for pay	9987	83.1%
2	An employer (employing one or more employees)	658	5.5%
3	Own account worker (not employing any employees)	1304	10.8%
4	Helping without pay in a household business	74	0.6%
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 in the seven days prior to the interview and who worked for someone else for pay or employed one or more employees, or did not employ any employees, or helped without pay in a household business.

Others

Notes

This question establishes whether people were employers, wage earners, self-employed, etc. in the main economic activities they were involved in. Only one category had to be chosen. If option '1' was chosen, the instruction was to go to Question 4.6; otherwise skip to Question 4.13.

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