Quarterly Labour Force Survey 2025
Quarter 3
South Africa, 2025
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ZAF_2025_QLFS-Q3_v01_M
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Statistics South Africa
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Status in employment by type of authority- detailed (ICSE-18 ) (Ste_icse18)
Data file: QLFS202503
Overview
Valid:
16006
Minimum:
1
Maximum:
13
Type:
Discrete
Width:
16
Format:
Numeric
Questions and instructions
Categories
| Value | Category | Cases | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Employers in corporations | 178 |
1.1%
|
| 2 | Employers in household market enterprises | 553 |
3.5%
|
| 4 | Owner-operators of corporations without employees | 78 |
0.5%
|
| 5 | Own-account workers in household market enterprises without employees | 1626 |
10.2%
|
| 7 | Dependent contractors | 637 |
4%
|
| 8 | Permanent employees | 10662 |
66.6%
|
| 9 | Fixed-term employees | 1525 |
9.5%
|
| 10 | Short-term and casual employees | 317 |
2%
|
| 11 | Paid apprentices, trainees and interns | 91 |
0.6%
|
| 12 | Employees not elsewhere classified | 277 |
1.7%
|
| 13 | Contributing family workers | 62 |
0.4%
|
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.