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Post Apartheid Labour Market Series 1993-2019

South Africa, 1993 - 2019
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ZAF_1993-2019_PALMS_v01_M
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Andrew Kerr, David Lam, Martin Wittenberg
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May 19, 2014
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Data file: palmsv3.3-stata11

Cases: 6022548
Variables: 86

Variables

uqnr
household id variable, as in original data
personnr
Person number
year
Survey year
wave
Survey wave, PSLSD 1993=0, OHS 1994=1, QLFS Dec 2015=54
ea
Primary Sampling Unit number
stratum
stratum var to be used for svyset in Stata- group of stratum and wave
province
Province
pweight
Original Stats SA/PSLSD person weight
ceweight1
Cross Entropy weight: SSA 2019 midyear estimates
hweight
Stats SA household weight
urbrur
Area type, waves 0-15 (LFS 2004:1)
popgroup
Population group
gender
Gender (1=Male 2=Female)
age
Age
marstat
Marital Status (consistent coding for all waves)
educhigh0
Highest education level, OHSs only
empstat1
Employment status, official
empstat2
Employment status, expanded
employer
Who does ... work for in main job (LFS only)
employer1
Who does individual work for? (PSLSD+OHS only)
numworkers
Number of regular workers at job, LFS
jobstartmonth
Month started working for employer, LFS+QLFS only
jobstartyear
Year started working for employer, LFS+QLFS only
selfformalreg
Individual considers the business they operate formal (OHS only)
selfvatreg
Business operated by the individual is registered for VAT (OHS only)
selfpaidemp
Number of paid employees in own enterprise (OHS only)
selfunpaidemp
Number of unpaid employees in own enterprise (OHS only)
wageformalreg
Employee considers the enterprise they work for formal (OHS only)
formalreg0
LFS variable for wage/self/domestic: business is formal, registered
regisvat
Business registered for VAT, all in LFS, only self-emp in QLFS
jobindcode
Industry of employment, short code
industry
3 digit industry SIC code, OHS 99+LFS
industry2
3 digit industry SIC code OHS96-98 +QLFS
indust2digit
2 digit Industry, OHS 94+95
jobocccode
Occupation of main job, short code
occupation
4 digit occ code OHS 96-LFS 2002:1
occupation1
3 digit occupation code, OHS 94+95
occupation2
4 digit occ code LFS 2002:2 onwards
jobunion
Member of trade union, PSLSD, OHS+LFS+QLFS 2012 onwards only
publicemp
Dummy: Employed by govt/public enterprise, PSLSD,LFS+QLFS only
businesstype1
Type of business where person works (waves 00:1 to 01:1)
businesstype2
Type of business where person works (waves 01:2 to 07:2)
hrslstwk
Hours worked in total in last 7 days
hhdisablegrant
Household member receives a disability grant
educhigh1
Highest level of Education, LFS only
inperson
Is the person responding in person
writtencontract
=1 if employee has written contract, LFS+QLFS
urbrur2
Area type, waves 23-50 (QLFS 2008:1- 2014:4)
urbrur3
Type of area, QLFS 2015 onwards
metro
Metro
educhigh2
Highest level of education (waves 04:2 to 2012:2)
educhigh3
Highest level of education (waves 2012:3 to 2016:2)
educhigh4
Highest level of education (waves 2016:3 to most recent QLFS)
employer2
Employer (QLFS)
businesstype3
Type of business where person works (QLFS)
jobcontract2
Contract is written or verbal?
registax
Business is registered for income tax (LFS and QLFS)
numworkers2
Number of employees at place of work (QLFS)
informal_sector_derived
DERIVED (by stats SA) variable : is job/business in formal sector, informal sect
informal_emp_derived
DERIVED (by stats SA) variable : indiv is in informal employment (QLFS 2009:3 on
formalreg1
Is the business formal, informal or private hh? 2008:1 until 2009:2
uif
Does employer deducted unemployment insurance fund contributions?
yrseduc
Years of education, derived variable
publicemp2
Public employment dummy that includes OHS, as well as PSLSD,LFS+QLFS
earnings
consistent monthly earnings (rand amt) variable for PALMSv2+
realearnings
consistent REAL monthly earnings (rand amt) variable for PALMSv2+
outlier
outlier flag based on regression+showing a studentised residual >=5
employerAll
Wage worker or Self-employed - all waves
pr_rand
Probability of giving actual Rand amount
bracketweight
Weight to correct for bracket responses, now using Stats SA demographic model
dc
District Council/Municipality
enrolled
More detailed enrollment status variable, for LFS only
enrollment3
Enrollment status: PSLSD, OHS and LFS only
dwelltype
Type of Dwelling of Household
watersource
Household's source of water
toiletmaintype
Household's Main toilet
hhpension
Household member receives an old age pension
hhchildsuppgrant
Household member receives a child support grant
hhcaredependgrant
Household member receives a care dependency grant
hhfostercaregrant
Household member receives a foster care grant
incpension
Indiv income past year from state old age pension
incdisabgrnt
Indiv income past year from disability grant
inctstmaint
Indiv income past year from state maintenance grant or child support grant
incdepgrnt
Indiv income past year from care dependency (single care) grant
incfostcrgrnt
Indiv income past year from foster care grant
employedpreferred
=1 if employed and NOT a self-employed agricultural worker
Total: 86
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