General Household Survey 2022

South Africa, 2022

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ZAF_2022_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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Aug 12, 2025

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Ownership of dwelling (hsg_tenure)

Data file: ghs-2022-hhold-v1

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Valid: 1000

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Width: 2

Range: 1 - 8

Format: Numeric

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Value	Category	Cases
1	Rented from private individual	168	16.8%
2	Rented from other (including municipality and social housing institutions)	49	4.9%
3	Owned, but not yet paid off to bank/financial institution	96	9.6%
4	Owned, but not yet paid off to private lender	10	1%
5	Owned and fully paid off	541	54.1%
6	Occupied rent-free	115	11.5%
7	Other tenure status	17	1.7%
8	DO NOT KNOW	4	0.4%

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.

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