Quarterly Labour Force Survey 2022
Quarter 1

South Africa, 2022

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ZAF_2022_QLFS-Q1_v01_M

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Statistics South Africa

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DataFirst , University of Cape Town, South Africa

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Jun 17, 2022

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Main reason absent from work (Q27RSNABSENT)

Data file: qlfs-2022-q1-worker-v1

Overview

Valid: 160

Invalid: 49648

Minimum: 1

Maximum: 14

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 38

End: 39

Width: 2

Range: 1 - 14

Format: Numeric

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Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Health reasons	16	10%
2	Vacation leave	59	36.9%
3	Caring for family or others(Except Maternity/Paternity leave)	1	0.6%
4	Maternity or paternity leave	15	9.4%
5	Other family/community obligations	5	3.1%
6	Strike/stay-away/lockout	3	1.9%
7	Problems with transport	1	0.6%
8	Bad weather	3	1.9%
9	Study or training leave	1	0.6%
11	Temporarily laid off/Reduction in economic activity	32	20%
12	Seasonal work	8	5%
13	Start a new job/business at a definite date in the future	2	1.3%
14	Other reason	14	8.8%
Sysmiss		49648

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.

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