General Household Survey 2016

South Africa, 2016

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ZAF_2016_GHS_v02_M

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Statistics South Africa

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DataFirst , University of Cape Town, South Africa

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Aug 14, 2017

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Data file: GHS 2016 Household v1.1 Stata11

Overview

Valid: 21218

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 304

End: 304

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 9

Format: Numeric

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Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Salaries/wages/commission	11065	52.1%
2	Income from a business	1566	7.4%
3	Remittances	1746	8.2%
4	Pensions	429	2%
5	Grants (include old age grant here)	5188	24.5%
6	Sales of farming products and services	25	0.1%
7	Other income sources e.g. rental income, interest	245	1.2%
8	No income	185	0.9%
9	Unspecified	769	3.6%

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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