Income and Expenditure Survey 2022-2023

South Africa, 2022 - 2023

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zaf-statssa-ies-2022-2023-v1.1

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Statistics South Africa

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South African Income Survey Data

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Dec 19, 2025

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Main source of income (MAIN_SOURCE_INCOME)

Data file: ies-2022-2023-person-v1.1

Overview

Valid: 0

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

loc_start_pos: 62

loc_end_pos: 63

Width: 2

Range: 1 - 88

Format: Numeric

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Categories

Value	Category
1	Salaries and wages
2	Net profit from business or professional practice/activities or commercial farming
3	Income from small-scale farming
4	Income from letting of fixed property
5	Royalties
6	Interest received and/or accrued on deposits, loans, savings certificates
7	Dividends on shares (e.g. unit trusts)
8	Income from share trading
9	Regular receipts from pension from previous employment and pension from annuity funds
10	Social welfare grants (including old age grant)
11	Alimony, maintenance and similar allowances from divorced spouse, family members, etc., living elsewhere
12	Regular allowances/remittances received from non-household members
13	Other income
88	Not applicable

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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