2024 Labour Force Survey
Thirteenth Edition
Zambia, 2024
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ZMB-ZSA-LFS-2024-V1.0
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Zambia Statistics Agency
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Data file: ZM_Annual_LFS_2024_Data_Anonymised_04122025
Overview
Valid:
206
Invalid:
0
Type:
Discrete
Width:
50
Range:
-
Format:
character
Questions and instructions
Categories
| Value | Category | Cases | |
|---|---|---|---|
| ATTENDING TO SPOUSE WHO WAS ADMITTED TO THE HOSPIT | 1 |
0.5%
|
|
| AWAITING TO RESTART SCHOOL | 1 |
0.5%
|
|
| Don't want to work | 1 |
0.5%
|
|
| Due to old age | 1 |
0.5%
|
|
| FEAR OF COMMUNITY NOT HAPPY WITH MY LIFE | 1 |
0.5%
|
|
| HE IS A JUNKY | 1 |
0.5%
|
|
| Had other responsibilities | 1 |
0.5%
|
|
| He would like to go to the College | 1 |
0.5%
|
|
| JUST completed | 1 |
0.5%
|
|
| Job not available | 1 |
0.5%
|
|
| MENTAL CASE | 1 |
0.5%
|
|
| NURSING a baby | 1 |
0.5%
|
|
| Newly born baby too small | 1 |
0.5%
|
|
| No reason,his not interested | 1 |
0.5%
|
|
| Not educated | 3 |
1.5%
|
|
| Not educated to find a better job | 1 |
0.5%
|
|
| Not educated to find a job | 1 |
0.5%
|
|
| Not educated to find a paid job | 3 |
1.5%
|
|
| Not educated to nave a proper job | 1 |
0.5%
|
|
| OLD AGE | 1 |
0.5%
|
|
| OTHER income | 1 |
0.5%
|
|
| PLANNING TO DO SOMETHING DIFFERENT | 1 |
0.5%
|
|
| PREGNANCY | 7 |
3.4%
|
|
| PREGNANT | 1 |
0.5%
|
|
| RETAILS | 1 |
0.5%
|
|
| SHE'S TOO OLD TO WORK | 1 |
0.5%
|
|
| TEACHING | 1 |
0.5%
|
|
| TOO OLD TO WORK | 3 |
1.5%
|
|
| TOO OLDTO WORK | 1 |
0.5%
|
|
| Too old to work | 2 |
1%
|
|
| Waiting to go to college | 1 |
0.5%
|
|
| Want to go back to school | 1 |
0.5%
|
|
| Want to go to the College | 1 |
0.5%
|
|
| Wants to go to the College | 2 |
1%
|
|
| a waiting to go back to school | 1 |
0.5%
|
|
| already emloyed as a maid | 1 |
0.5%
|
|
| awaiting to back to school | 1 |
0.5%
|
|
| awaiting to go back to school | 1 |
0.5%
|
|
| awaiting to go to college | 3 |
1.5%
|
|
| away for a holiday in ndola | 1 |
0.5%
|
|
| cam not find a job | 1 |
0.5%
|
|
| child too young | 1 |
0.5%
|
|
| comfortable with what is doing | 1 |
0.5%
|
|
| completed last year | 2 |
1%
|
|
| currently looking after a patient | 1 |
0.5%
|
|
| doesn't want to | 1 |
0.5%
|
|
| doing nothing | 1 |
0.5%
|
|
| drinking | 1 |
0.5%
|
|
| from RENTALS | 1 |
0.5%
|
|
| going back to school next year | 2 |
1%
|
|
| had a funeral | 1 |
0.5%
|
|
| hand injury | 1 |
0.5%
|
|
| he was away home from june up to date | 1 |
0.5%
|
|
| his FINANCIAL earnings comes from from CHURCH | 1 |
0.5%
|
|
| illness | 1 |
0.5%
|
|
| in prison | 1 |
0.5%
|
|
| incapacitated | 1 |
0.5%
|
|
| intending to go to college | 1 |
0.5%
|
|
| job search | 4 |
1.9%
|
|
| jobs not available | 2 |
1%
|
|
| just completed | 2 |
1%
|
|
| just completed COLLEGE | 1 |
0.5%
|
|
| just completed SCHOOL | 1 |
0.5%
|
|
| just completed grade 12 | 1 |
0.5%
|
|
| just completed her GCE | 1 |
0.5%
|
|
| just completed his gread 12 | 1 |
0.5%
|
|
| just completed his degree | 1 |
0.5%
|
|
| just completed school | 1 |
0.5%
|
|
| lack of school fees | 1 |
0.5%
|
|
| mentally disturbed | 1 |
0.5%
|
|
| mother would not allow | 1 |
0.5%
|
|
| no COMPANY IN THE AREA | 1 |
0.5%
|
|
| no education | 1 |
0.5%
|
|
| no interest in work | 1 |
0.5%
|
|
| no job | 1 |
0.5%
|
|
| no job found | 1 |
0.5%
|
|
| no job in the AREA | 1 |
0.5%
|
|
| no job in the area | 1 |
0.5%
|
|
| no jobs in zambia | 1 |
0.5%
|
|
| no jobs in THE area | 1 |
0.5%
|
|
| no jobs in the area | 4 |
1.9%
|
|
| no reason | 1 |
0.5%
|
|
| no skills | 1 |
0.5%
|
|
| no skils | 1 |
0.5%
|
|
| not educated | 1 |
0.5%
|
|
| not interested | 1 |
0.5%
|
|
| not interested in working | 1 |
0.5%
|
|
| not intrested | 1 |
0.5%
|
|
| nursing a new born baby | 1 |
0.5%
|
|
| nursing the parent in the hospital | 1 |
0.5%
|
|
| old RECEIVING social cash transfer | 1 |
0.5%
|
|
| old aged | 1 |
0.5%
|
|
| old for work | 1 |
0.5%
|
|
| pastoring | 1 |
0.5%
|
|
| planning to go back to school | 1 |
0.5%
|
|
| ppregnant | 1 |
0.5%
|
|
| pregnancy | 9 |
4.4%
|
|
| pregnancy could not do anything | 1 |
0.5%
|
|
| pregnant | 4 |
1.9%
|
|
| preparing to go to college | 2 |
1%
|
|
| retired | 1 |
0.5%
|
|
| seasonal FARMER | 1 |
0.5%
|
|
| selling fish at yalelo store | 1 |
0.5%
|
|
| she is pregnant | 1 |
0.5%
|
|
| she is pregnant | 2 |
1%
|
|
| she was pregnant | 1 |
0.5%
|
|
| she's pregnant | 1 |
0.5%
|
|
| shes is 8months pregnant | 1 |
0.5%
|
|
| still on job search | 1 |
0.5%
|
|
| still schooling | 1 |
0.5%
|
|
| taking care of a newly born baby | 1 |
0.5%
|
|
| taking care of newly born | 1 |
0.5%
|
|
| there are no jobs | 2 |
1%
|
|
| there are no jobs | 1 |
0.5%
|
|
| there are no jobs out ther3 | 1 |
0.5%
|
|
| this person is working | 1 |
0.5%
|
|
| tired of job searching | 1 |
0.5%
|
|
| tired of LOOKING for jobs | 1 |
0.5%
|
|
| too OLD to work | 1 |
0.5%
|
|
| too old | 1 |
0.5%
|
|
| too old to WORK | 1 |
0.5%
|
|
| too old to work | 1 |
0.5%
|
|
| trying to get into college | 1 |
0.5%
|
|
| waiting for grade 12 results | 1 |
0.5%
|
|
| waiting for school results | 1 |
0.5%
|
|
| waiting for the job from the previous search | 1 |
0.5%
|
|
| waiting go to COLLEGE | 1 |
0.5%
|
|
| waiting to be deployed in the workforce | 1 |
0.5%
|
|
| waiting to be enrolled in school | 1 |
0.5%
|
|
| waiting to get back into college | 1 |
0.5%
|
|
| waiting to get to college | 1 |
0.5%
|
|
| waiting to go back to SCHOOL | 2 |
1%
|
|
| waiting to go back to school | 1 |
0.5%
|
|
| waiting to go to COLLEGE | 1 |
0.5%
|
|
| waiting to go to college | 1 |
0.5%
|
|
| waiting to go to university | 6 |
2.9%
|
|
| waiting to rewrite gce | 1 |
0.5%
|
|
| want to REWRITE | 1 |
0.5%
|
|
| wants to GO back to SCHOOL | 1 |
0.5%
|
|
| wants to back to school | 1 |
0.5%
|
|
| wants to do BUSINESS | 2 |
1%
|
|
| wants to do business | 2 |
1%
|
|
| wants to go back to school | 1 |
0.5%
|
|
| wants to go to college | 1 |
0.5%
|
|
| wants to rewrite GCE | 1 |
0.5%
|
|
| wants to rewrite grade 12 | 1 |
0.5%
|
|
| wants to rewrite grade 9 | 1 |
0.5%
|
|
| wants to rewrite some subjects she failed i | 1 |
0.5%
|
|
| wants to start BUSINESS | 1 |
0.5%
|
|
| wants to start farming | 1 |
0.5%
|
|
| was not a member of a household | 1 |
0.5%
|
|
| went visitation | 1 |
0.5%
|
|
| will go back to SCHOOL | 1 |
0.5%
|
|
| will go back to schoi | 1 |
0.5%
|
|
| will go back to school | 1 |
0.5%
|
|
| will go to school | 1 |
0.5%
|
|
| will start SCHOOL | 1 |
0.5%
|
|
| will start school | 1 |
0.5%
|
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.