Quarterly Labour Force Survey 2025
Quarter 1

South Africa, 2025

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Reference ID

ZAF_2025_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 08, 2025

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Jul 08, 2025

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Inactivity reason (InactReason)

Data file: qlfs-2025-q1-worker-v1

Overview

Valid: 23256

Invalid: 43173

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Width: 16

Range: 1 - 6

Format: Numeric

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Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Scholar/student	6832	29.4%
2	Home-maker	2373	10.2%
3	Health reasons	1790	7.7%
4	Too young/old/retired	7032	30.2%
5	Discouraged work-seekers	3541	15.2%
6	Other	1688	7.3%
Sysmiss		43173

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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