Quarterly Labour Force Survey 2023
Quarter 2
South Africa, 2023
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Reference ID
ZAF_2023_QLFS-Q2_v01_M
Producer(s)
Statistics South Africa
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- qlfs-2023-q2-worker-v1
Previous occupation grouped (prevoccup)
Data file: qlfs-2023-q2-worker-v1
Overview
Valid:
4820
Invalid:
61808
Type:
Discrete
Decimal:
0
Width:
2
Range:
1 - 11
Format:
Numeric
Questions and instructions
Categories
| Value | Category | Cases | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Legislators; senior officials and managers | 126 |
2.6%
|
| 2 | Professionals | 112 |
2.3%
|
| 3 | Technical and associate professionals | 239 |
5%
|
| 4 | Clerks | 446 |
9.3%
|
| 5 | Service workers and shop and market sales workers | 943 |
19.6%
|
| 6 | Skilled agricultural and fishery workers | 20 |
0.4%
|
| 7 | Craft and related trades workers | 641 |
13.3%
|
| 8 | Plant and machine operators and assemblers | 299 |
6.2%
|
| 9 | Elementary Occupation | 1603 |
33.3%
|
| 10 | Domestic workers | 389 |
8.1%
|
| 11 | Other | 2 |
0%
|
| Sysmiss | 61808 |
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.