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Quarterly Labour Force Survey 2021, Quarter 2

South Africa, 2021
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ZAF_2021_QLFS-Q2_v01_M
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Statistics South Africa
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Year commenced working (Q44YEARSTART)

Data file: qlfs-2021-q2-worker-v1

Overview

Valid: 12023
Invalid: 41917
Minimum: 1968
Maximum: 2021
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 96
End: 99
Width: 4
Range: 1968 - 2021
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Categories
Value Category Cases
1968 1968 1
0%
1972 1972 1
0%
1973 1973 3
0%
1974 1974 5
0%
1975 1975 2
0%
1977 1977 1
0%
1978 1978 4
0%
1979 1979 2
0%
1980 1980 20
0.2%
1981 1981 11
0.1%
1982 1982 18
0.1%
1983 1983 16
0.1%
1984 1984 23
0.2%
1985 1985 21
0.2%
1986 1986 26
0.2%
1987 1987 18
0.1%
1988 1988 36
0.3%
1989 1989 46
0.4%
1990 1990 73
0.6%
1991 1991 58
0.5%
1992 1992 65
0.5%
1993 1993 47
0.4%
1994 1994 61
0.5%
1995 1995 78
0.6%
1996 1996 68
0.6%
1997 1997 50
0.4%
1998 1998 91
0.8%
1999 1999 105
0.9%
2000 2000 172
1.4%
2001 2001 114
0.9%
2002 2002 110
0.9%
2003 2003 110
0.9%
2004 2004 144
1.2%
2005 2005 149
1.2%
2006 2006 245
2%
2007 2007 220
1.8%
2008 2008 301
2.5%
2009 2009 397
3.3%
2010 2010 461
3.8%
2011 2011 317
2.6%
2012 2012 380
3.2%
2013 2013 354
2.9%
2014 2014 495
4.1%
2015 2015 727
6%
2016 2016 687
5.7%
2017 2017 833
6.9%
2018 2018 1107
9.2%
2019 2019 1357
11.3%
2020 2020 1334
11.1%
2021 2021 1059
8.8%
Sysmiss 41917
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.

Description

Universe
All members of the households in selected dwelling units aged 15 years and older, who were economically active and were working for someone for pay in the seven days prior to the interview.

Others

Notes
This question was asked to establish when people started working for the main employer for whom they were working with the aim of checking whether people were staying in one job for a long time or changing jobs often (job stability).
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