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Unemployment rate (expanded definition)
| Definition | The official definition of the unemployed is that they are those people within the economically active population who (a) did not work during the 7 days prior to the interview, (b) want to work and are available to work within a week of the interview, and (c) have taken active steps to look for work or to start some form of self-employment in the 4 weeks prior to the interview. The expanded definition excludes criterion (c). It therefore includes discouraged work seekers who have failed to take active steps to obtain employment in the 4 weeks prior to the interview.
StatsSA are no longer (2006) using the expanded defintion. |
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Indicator Type: -> Socio-Economic -> Employment [Related Resources]
| EC | FS | GP | KZN | LP | MP | NC | NW | WC | ZA |
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| 1998 | 51.9 | 31.6 | 32.6 | 42.7 | 49.2 | 34.9 | 29.8 | 41.3 | 20.9 | [1] 37.5 |
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| 1999 | 46.7 | 34.0 | 32.5 | 37.8 | 50.2 | 37.0 | 29.1 | 42.1 | 18.9 | [2] 36.2 |
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| 2002 | 39.2 | 40.9 | 35.6 | 46.7 | 55.1 | 41.7 | 41.0 | 46.3 | 25.5 | [3] 40.9 |
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| 2003 | 49.4 | 41.0 | 36.9 | 45.0 | 55.8 | 41.5 | 39.1 | 47.1 | 26.3 | [4] 41.8 |
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| 2004 | 50.0 | 38.1 | 36.3 | 45.8 | 57.0 | 41.9 | 39.4 | 46.1 | 22.9 | [5] 41.2 |
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| EC: Eastern Cape FS: Free State GP: Gauteng KZN: KwaZulu-Natal LP: Limpopo MP: Mpumalanga NC: Northern Cape NW: North West WC: Western Cape ZA: South Africa |
Notes and References
- StatsSA OHS: Statistics South Africa. Statistical Release PO317 October Household Survey. (various years) http://www.statssa.gov.za/ The 1999 OHS survey gathered detailed information on approximately 140 000 people living in 30 000 households. The survey covers a range of development and poverty indicators, including unemployment rates. The OHS of 1999 was drawn from a master sample, in which households from the same primary sampling until will be visited for a variety of surveys. This was the first time that a master sample was used to select households to be interviewed. Altogether 3000 EAs were drawn in 1999. The 1999 OHS, in common with the 1997 and 1998 OHS, was weighted to reflect estimates of the population size based on the population census of 1996.
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Table 5.1 (population groups) and Table 2.2.1 (provinces) OHS 1998
- StatsSA OHS: Statistics South Africa. Statistical Release PO317 October Household Survey. (various years) http://www.statssa.gov.za/ The 1999 OHS survey gathered detailed information on approximately 140 000 people living in 30 000 households. The survey covers a range of development and poverty indicators, including unemployment rates. The OHS of 1999 was drawn from a master sample, in which households from the same primary sampling until will be visited for a variety of surveys. This was the first time that a master sample was used to select households to be interviewed. Altogether 3000 EAs were drawn in 1999. The 1999 OHS, in common with the 1997 and 1998 OHS, was weighted to reflect estimates of the population size based on the population census of 1996.
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Table 5.1 (population groups) and Table 2.2.1 (provinces) OHS 1999
- StatsSA Labour Force Survey: Statistics South Africa. Statistical release P0210 Labour force survey. (various years) http://www.statssa.gov.za/
Local copy: http://www.hst.org.za/indicators/StatsSA/LFS/
February 2002. Tables 2.4.2 and 2.5.2
- StatsSA Labour Force Survey: Statistics South Africa. Statistical release P0210 Labour force survey. (various years) http://www.statssa.gov.za/
Local copy: http://www.hst.org.za/indicators/StatsSA/LFS/
September 2003.
- StatsSA Labour Force Survey: Statistics South Africa. Statistical release P0210 Labour force survey. (various years) http://www.statssa.gov.za/
Local copy: http://www.hst.org.za/indicators/StatsSA/LFS/
March 2004.
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