Governance Public Safety and Justice Survey 2022-2023

South Africa, 2022 - 2023

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ZAF_2022-2023_GPSJS_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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Main source of income (IncomeMa)

Data file: gpsjs-2022-2023-individual-v1

Overview

Valid: 20543

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Width: 2

Range: 1 - 99

Format: Numeric

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Value	Category	Cases
1	Salaries and wages	7549	36.7%
2	Net profit from business or professional practice/ activities of commercial farming	1436	7%
3	Income from subsistence farming	24	0.1%
4	Income from letting of fixed property	58	0.3%
5	Regular payments from pension fund from previous employment and pension from annuity funds	474	2.3%
6	Social grants (including old age grant)	3540	17.2%
7	Maintenance, spousal support and similar allowances from divorced spouse, family members, etc., living elsewhere	336	1.6%
8	Regular allowance/ remittances received from non-household members	581	2.8%
9	Other income (e.g. royalties, interest, dividends on shares, income from share trading)	111	0.5%
10	Special COVID-19 Social relief of distress grant (R330)	1621	7.9%
99	Unspecified	4813	23.4%

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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