AHRI.Labour Statuses

South Africa, 2000 - 2024

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AHRI.LabourStatuses

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Dr Kobus Herbst, Dr Guy Harling, Dr Mark Siedner, Prof Willem Hanekom

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HDSS 2023 Release

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Feb 19, 2026

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Feb 19, 2026

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Employment Type (EmploymentType)

Data file: LabourStatuses

Overview

Valid: 1176085

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Width: 23

Range: 0 - 203

Format: Numeric

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Value	Category	Cases
0	Unknown employment type	778	0.1%
200	Unknown employment type	1031288	87.7%
201	Works as employee	135376	11.5%
202	Work for themselves	5046	0.4%
203	Do odd jobs/piece jobs	3597	0.3%

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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