Quarterly Labour Force Survey 2023
Quarter 1

South Africa, 2023

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Reference ID

ZAF_2023_QLFS-Q1_v01_M

Producer(s)

Statistics South Africa

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DataFirst , University of Cape Town, South Africa

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Jul 26, 2023

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Jul 26, 2023

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Main reason you stopped working (Q314RSNSTOPWRK)

Data file: qlfs-2023-q1-worker-v1

Overview

Valid: 4608

Invalid: 60719

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Width: 2

Range: 1 - 10

Format: Numeric

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Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Health reason	175	3.8%
2	Caring for own children/relatives	56	1.2%
3	Pregnancy	57	1.2%
4	Other family/community responsibilities	31	0.7%
5	Going to school	39	0.8%
6	Lost job/job ended/laid off/business sold/closed down	3563	77.3%
7	Changed residence	43	0.9%
8	Dissatisfied with the job	195	4.2%
9	Retired/ too old to work	322	7%
10	Other	127	2.8%
Sysmiss		60719

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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