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).