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get_qes_employment_series

statssa.gov.za

Returns the full quarterly Quarterly Employment Statistics (QES) employment time series from https://www.statssa.gov.za, ordered newest-first. Includes total formal non-agricultural employment, quarter-over-quarter change, and major SIC division breakdowns for each quarter.

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Parameters2
Runs10
Updated8d ago
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What is get_qes_employment_series?

Returns the full quarterly Quarterly Employment Statistics (QES) employment time series from https://www.statssa.gov.za, ordered newest-first. Includes total formal non-agricultural employment, quarter-over-quarter change, and major SIC division breakdowns for each quarter. It runs on Notte's browser infrastructure and returns structured JSON, so you can call it like any other API — pass start_period, end_period and get the result back without maintaining a scraper.

Response

{
  "unit": "<string>",
  "title": "<string>",
  "frequency": "<string>",
  "publication": "<string>",
  "observations": [
    {
      "year": 0,
      "period": "<string>",
      "quarter": 0,
      "sectors": [
        {
          "employed": 0,
          "industry": "<string>",
          "sic_code": "<string>"
        }
      ],
      "total_employed": 0,
      "source_period_code": "<string>",
      "quarter_over_quarter_percent_change": 0
    }
  ],
  "release_period": "<string>",
  "observation_count": 0,
  "available_end_period": "<string>",
  "available_start_period": "<string>"
}

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curl --location 'https://us-prod.notte.cc/functions/168d3d61-b046-4719-9a95-4fa28d6da23a/runs/start' \
--header 'x-notte-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY' \
--header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
--header 'Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY' \
--data '{
    "function_id": "168d3d61-b046-4719-9a95-4fa28d6da23a",
    "variables": {
        "start_period": "2009-Q3",
        "end_period": "latest"
    }
}'

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Call run(function_id="168d3d61-b046-4719-9a95-4fa28d6da23a") — the "get_qes_employment_series" function, which returns the full quarterly Quarterly Employment Statistics (QES) employment time series from https://www.statssa.gov.za, ordered newest-first. Includes total formal non-agricultural employment, quarter-over-quarter change, and major SIC division breakdowns for each quarter..

It takes start_period (str), end_period (str). Return the result as structured JSON.