Quarterly Labour Force Survey 2025, Quarter 4

South Africa, 2025

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zaf-statssa-qlfs-2025-q4-v1

DOI

https://doi.org/10.25828/8ya9-3j92

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South African Labour Force Survey Data

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Feb 20, 2026

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Type of business account kept (Q414bBOOKTYPE)

Data file: qlfs-2025-q4-v1

Overview

Valid: 11405

Minimum: 1

Maximum: 6

Mean: 2.9789565979833

Standard deviation: 2.1863578008847

Type: Discrete

Width: 16

Format: Numeric

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Value	Category	Cases
1	A complete set of written accounts for tax purposes	5856	51.3%
2	Simplified written accounts to be submitted for tax purposes	379	3.3%
3	Simplified written accounts not for tax purposes	199	1.7%
4	Informal records of orders, sales, purchases	643	5.6%
5	No records are kept	1776	15.6%
6	Do not know	2552	22.4%

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.

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