Labour Market Dynamics in South Africa 2022
South Africa, 2022
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Reference ID
ZAF_2022_LMDSA_v01_M
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Statistics South Africa
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Aug 12, 2025
Last modified
Aug 12, 2025
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- lmdsa-2022-v1
Previous occupation grouped (PrevOccup)
Data file: lmdsa-2022-v1
Overview
Valid:
16825
Invalid:
218108
Type:
Discrete
Decimal:
0
Width:
2
Range:
1 - 11
Format:
Numeric
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Categories
| Value | Category | Cases | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Legislators; senior officials and managers | 416 |
2.5%
|
| 2 | Professionals | 406 |
2.4%
|
| 3 | Technical and associate professionals | 893 |
5.3%
|
| 4 | Clerks | 1749 |
10.4%
|
| 5 | Service workers and shop and market sales workers | 2977 |
17.7%
|
| 6 | Skilled agricultural and fishery workers | 57 |
0.3%
|
| 7 | Craft and related trades workers | 2160 |
12.8%
|
| 8 | Plant and machine operators and assemblers | 999 |
5.9%
|
| 9 | Elementary Occupation | 5638 |
33.5%
|
| 10 | Domestic workers | 1524 |
9.1%
|
| 11 | Other | 6 |
0%
|
| Sysmiss | 218108 |
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.