A Gender Analysis of the Department of Trade and Industry Services and Funding Processes

In addition, in the appendix, Table 9 details the availability of data for each of the chosen indicators in the Labour Force Surveys, the Quarterly Labour Force Surveys, and the Labour Market Dynamics datasets between 2000 and 2017; and Table 10 details the composition of six variations of the job quality index in terms of which indicators are included and which are excluded for each. [...] This rebasing at the level of the dimensions means that the overall value of the job quality index can not be calculated as the average of the dimension scores presented here.2 2 Original and rebased indices for the overall JQI index and its dimension are presented in Table 11 in the appendix. [...] As noted, the decline in job quality observed over the 2011-2017 period can be explained by declines in the scores for both the wage dimension and the representation and voice dimension. [...] Table 13 in the appendix presents the distribution of employees across the categories of the wage dimension over the period, with the categories defined as multiples of the national minimum wage. [...] 17 Job Quality in South Africa: A Proposed Index for Ongoing Monitoring of Job Quality In terms of the four dimensions of job quality covered by the JQI measure, private households score particularly poorly on the wage dimension (28.6 in 2017, second only to agriculture at 26.4), the benefits and employment security dimension (27.0, compared to construction with the second-lowest score of 69.6), a.