Quarterly Labour Force Survey 2023
Quarter 4
South Africa, 2023
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Reference ID
ZAF_2023_QLFS-Q4_v01_M
Producer(s)
Statistics South Africa
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Aug 11, 2025
Last modified
Aug 11, 2025
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- qlfs-2023-q4-worker-v1
Previous occupation grouped (prevoccup)
Data file: qlfs-2023-q4-worker-v1
Overview
Valid:
5134
Invalid:
61352
Type:
Discrete
Decimal:
0
Width:
2
Range:
1 - 11
Format:
Numeric
Questions and instructions
Categories
| Value | Category | Cases | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Legislators; senior officials and managers | 148 |
2.9%
|
| 2 | Professionals | 152 |
3%
|
| 3 | Technical and associate professionals | 249 |
4.9%
|
| 4 | Clerks | 469 |
9.1%
|
| 5 | Service workers and shop and market sales workers | 1037 |
20.2%
|
| 6 | Skilled agricultural and fishery workers | 15 |
0.3%
|
| 7 | Craft and related trades workers | 642 |
12.5%
|
| 8 | Plant and machine operators and assemblers | 331 |
6.4%
|
| 9 | Elementary Occupation | 1706 |
33.2%
|
| 10 | Domestic workers | 382 |
7.4%
|
| 11 | Other | 3 |
0.1%
|
| Sysmiss | 61352 |
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.