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. 2015 Mar;21(3):207–215. doi: 10.1179/2049396714Y.0000000066

Table 3. Employment characteristics of the South African work force by gender.

Women Men Total
Regular wage worker 63.41% (1.30) 70.31% (1.24) 67.52%*** (0.90)
Self-employed 16.87% (1.02) 14.45% (1.01) 15.64% (0.72)
Casual worker 10.87% (0.89) 12.55% (0.91) 11.73% (0.64)
Subsistence farming 14.21% (0.82) 8.43% (0.64) 11.27%*** (0.52)
Weighted N 4 663 212 4 865 584 9 528 796

Note: The data are weighted. Standard errors in parenthesis. Differences between men and women are statistically significant at: ***P<0.01; **P<0.05; *P<0.10. Categories are not mutually exclusive, therefore columns do not total to 100%.

Source: Authors’ calculations from NIDS (2008).