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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Number of employees (Q416NRWORKERS)

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

Overview

Valid: 12023

Invalid: 41917

Minimum: 1

Maximum: 8

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 122

End: 122

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 8

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	0 employee	1307	10.9%
2	1 employee	1157	9.6%
3	between 2 and 4 employees	1107	9.2%
4	between 5 and 9 employees	931	7.7%
5	between 10 and 19 employees	1487	12.4%
6	between 20 and 49 employees	1836	15.3%
7	50 or more employees	3506	29.2%
8	Do not know	692	5.8%
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, who were employees, employers, self-employed, and persons helping unpaid in a household business.

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Notes

This question deals with the size of the organisation/business in terms of it being formal or informal. The question seeks to determine how many people were usually employed per type of organisation/business.

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