2024 Labour Force Survey
Thirteenth Edition
Zambia, 2024
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ZMB-ZSA-LFS-2024-V1.0
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Data file: ZM_Annual_LFS_2024_Data_Anonymised_04122025
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Valid:
448
Invalid:
0
Type:
Discrete
Width:
50
Range:
-
Format:
character
Questions and instructions
Categories
| Value | Category | Cases | |
|---|---|---|---|
| AGED | 3 |
0.7%
|
|
| ATTENDING TO THE ILL PARENT IN LAW | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| ATTENDING TO THE ILL PATIENT | 2 |
0.4%
|
|
| AWAITING TO RESTART SCHOOL | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| Already has a job | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| BECAUSE OF PREGNANCY | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| DON'T HAVE NRC | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| Due to old age | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| GOING TO UNIVERSITY IN JANUARY NEXT YEAR | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| HE DOESN'T EVEN LOOK FOR EMPLOYMENT HE IS A JUNKY | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| HE IS A RETIRED MAN | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| HELPING REPAIRING THE HOUSE | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| HOUSEHOLD member absent | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| Has no interest | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| He had other responsibilities | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| He was nursing the wife who was sick sinc February | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| He would want to go to the College | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| Her children who are grown up support her. | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| JUST GOT MARRIED | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| JUST completed SCHOOL | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| Just completed School | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| Just completed school | 4 |
0.9%
|
|
| LACK OF CAPITAL | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| LOOKING AFTER CATTLE | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| LOOKING AFTER THE HOUSE | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| Lack of Education | 2 |
0.4%
|
|
| Lacking Education | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| MENTALLY DISTURBED | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| NO INDUSTRIES IN THE AREA | 2 |
0.4%
|
|
| No capital | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| No job in the area | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| No jobs in the area | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| Not educated | 3 |
0.7%
|
|
| Not educated enough to find a job | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| Not educated to find a better job | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| Not educated to find a paid job | 3 |
0.7%
|
|
| Not educated to have a proper job | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| Not interested, just drinks illicit beer | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| Nothing | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| Old | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| PLANNING TO DO SOMETHING DIFFERENT | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| PREGNANCY | 8 |
1.8%
|
|
| RAISING AND LOOKING AFTER CATTLE | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| RETIRED | 2 |
0.4%
|
|
| SHE IS AN OLD LADY AND CANNOT DO ANYTHING | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| SHE IS TOO OLD | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| SHE'S TOO OLD TO WORK | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| She has been ill for quite some time | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| She went out | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| Supported by the child | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| TEACHING | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| TOO OLD | 3 |
0.7%
|
|
| TOO OLD TO WORK | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| TOO OLD TO WORK | 26 |
5.8%
|
|
| TOO OLD to WORK | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| Thats when she wzntsmto start looking for a job | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| Too Old | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| Too old | 3 |
0.7%
|
|
| Too old to work | 9 |
2%
|
|
| WAITING TO BE POSTED | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| WAITING TO REWRITE THE SUBJECT | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| WANT TO DO HER OWN BUSINESS | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| WANT TO GO back to SCHOOL | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| Waiting TO start studies | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| Waiting to go to College | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| Waiting to to go to college | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| Wants to go to the College | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| absent | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| absent from home | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| awaiting deployment | 2 |
0.4%
|
|
| awaiting to go back to SCHOOL | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| awaiting to go back to school | 2 |
0.4%
|
|
| awaiting to go school | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| awaiting to go to college | 2 |
0.4%
|
|
| because she not educated | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| building the house | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| comfortable with the business is doing | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| completed last year | 2 |
0.4%
|
|
| considering going back to school | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| december is normally tricky to look for a job | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| did not have money for TRANSPORT | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| difficult to get a job | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| doesn't want to | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| drought | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| due to pregnancy | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| fully pregnant | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| hand injury | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| he has no money to start a busine | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| he has no money to start a business | 18 |
4%
|
|
| he is too OLD | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| he just stays at home, ledt university due to drin | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| he was away for holiday in ndola | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| her child too young | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| her mother does allow | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| incapacitated | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| intending on going to college | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| it's a week he lost his wife | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| job search | 2 |
0.4%
|
|
| just arrived to stay with the household | 2 |
0.4%
|
|
| just completed | 5 |
1.1%
|
|
| just completed SCHOOL | 2 |
0.4%
|
|
| just completed her GCE | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| just completed his degree | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| just graduated | 2 |
0.4%
|
|
| just joined the household | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| just wedded | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| lack of jobs | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| lack of resources | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| lack of skills | 2 |
0.4%
|
|
| lacks skills | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| looking after a newly born child | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| looking after a patient at home | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| looking after the ill husband | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| mentally DISTURBED | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| money from rentals | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| newly wedded | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| no MONEY to go to COLLEGE | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| no adverts for jobs and no moneys to start a busin | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| no capital | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| no education | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| no industries | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| no intrest in work | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| no job available | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| no jobs available in the AREA | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| no jobs in the area | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| no jobs in the village | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| no jobs in this area | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| no jobs in village | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| no reason | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| no skill | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| no skills | 2 |
0.4%
|
|
| no vacancies in jobs | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| no valid reason for not working | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| none | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| not educated | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| not interested | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| not interested in looking for work | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| not interested in work | 3 |
0.7%
|
|
| not intrested | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| not schooled, cant find job | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| nothing to do | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| nursing a baby | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| nursing a new born baby | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| nursing the parent in the hospital | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| old age | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| old age can not work | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| old aged | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| old for work | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| old to WORK | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| other resources of income to go to college | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| planning on going bck to school next year | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| planning to bacto school | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| pregnancy | 10 |
2.2%
|
|
| pregnancy and waiting to get back to school | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| pregnancy was in its advanced stage | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| pregnant | 3 |
0.7%
|
|
| preparing to go to college | 2 |
0.4%
|
|
| rely on FAMILY and children | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| retaired | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| retire | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| retired | 12 |
2.7%
|
|
| retired from work | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| retiree | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| seasonal FARMER | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| seeking work | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| she has no money to start a busine | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| she has no money to start a business | 55 |
12.3%
|
|
| she is a old woman | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| she is pregnant can't work in that state | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| she is too OLD | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| she is too old | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| she is too old to work | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| she was away | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| she was away from home since September | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| she was not feeling well by that time | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| she was on maternity leave | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| she was out | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| she was pregnant | 3 |
0.7%
|
|
| she went visiting | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| she works as a maid but asked for one month off fo | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| she's pregnant | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| shes 8 months pregnant | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| still waiting to go back to school | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| taking care of a newly born baby | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| they don't have capital money to start business | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| too OLD | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| too OLD to work | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| too lazy and beer drinking | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| too odd to work | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| too old | 4 |
0.9%
|
|
| too old TO work | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| too old to WORK | 3 |
0.7%
|
|
| too old to look for work | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| too old to work | 20 |
4.5%
|
|
| too old(retired teacher) | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| too young to work | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| trying to get into college | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| unconcerned | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| waiting to start schooling | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| waiting for grade 12 results | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| waiting for licence | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| waiting for school rwsulys to come out | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| waiting go to COLLEGE | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| waiting to be posted | 3 |
0.7%
|
|
| waiting to deployed in the workforce | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| waiting to enroll back in school | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| waiting to go back to SCHOOL | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| waiting to go back to school | 2 |
0.4%
|
|
| waiting to go for tertiary education | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| waiting to go to college | 8 |
1.8%
|
|
| waiting to go to school | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| waiting to go to university | 7 |
1.6%
|
|
| waiting to rewrite GCE | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| waiting to rewrite gce | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| waiting to start studies | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| waiting to write GCE exams | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| want to rewrite grade 9 | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| wants BUSINESS | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| wants to REWRITE grade 9 | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| wants to back TO SCHOOL | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| wants to do BUSINESS | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| wants to do business | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| wants to go back to school | 2 |
0.4%
|
|
| wants to rewrite grade 12 | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| wants to start BUSINESS | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| wants to start business | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| was REPAIRING a house | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| was absent | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| was away | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| was away (absent) on a visit | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| was not a member of a household | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| was out to visit the sick mother | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| went out visiting the sick mother in law | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| what to go back to school | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| will go back to SCHOOL | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| will go to school | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| will start school | 1 |
0.2%
|
|
| working as a maid | 1 |
0.2%
|
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.