Re-examining the South African labour force surveys

Derek Yu ()
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Derek Yu: Department of Economics, University of the Western Cape

No 05/2025, Working Papers from Stellenbosch University, Department of Economics

Abstract: Since the advent of democracy, Statistics South Africa (StatsSA) has been collecting comprehensive labour market data with the October Household Survey (1995-1999), Labour Force Survey (2000-2007) and Quarterly Labour Force Survey (2008 – ). In addition, the Census and other surveys have also been capturing some labour market data. In August 2025, StatsSA announced that the revamped Quarterly Labour Force Survey would be launched in the third quarter of the year, with various changes to define and derive some labour market status variables differently. This study is timely by aiming to provide further suggestions on possible changes that can still be made to the Quarterly Labour Force Survey questionnaire so as to capture labour market information even better.

Keywords: Labour market; Labour market survey; Quarterly Labour Force Survey; Employment; Unemployment; Entrepreneurship (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C80 J00 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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