General Household Survey 2015

South Africa, 2015

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ZAF_2015_GHS_v01_M

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Statistics South Africa

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DataFirst , University of Cape Town, South Africa

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You and your household are at present (Q819Status)

Data file: ghs_2015_house_v1

Overview

Valid: 21601

Invalid: 0

Minimum: 1

Maximum: 9

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 360

End: 360

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 9

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

Would you say you and your household are at present?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Wealth	242	1.1%
2	Very comfortable	1193	5.5%
3	Reasonably comfortable	3828	17.7%
4	Just getting along	9586	44.4%
5	Poor	4972	23%
6	Very poor	1542	7.1%
9	Unspecified	238	1.1%

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.

Interviewer instructions

This question measures relative poverty and was introduced to assist with the calculation of a Multi-dimensional poverty index.

Description

Universe

All households

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