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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Main reason for movement (MIG_MOVREAS)

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

Overview

Valid: 0

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

loc_start_pos: 174

loc_end_pos: 175

Width: 2

Range: 1 - 99

Format: Numeric

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Categories

Value	Category
1	Start a business/other business reasons
2	Look for paid work
3	Job transfer/take up a new job opportunity
4	Divorce/separation
5	Moved as a household accompanying a household member
6	New dwelling for household
7	Moving to live with or be closer to spouse (marriage), family, friends, partner
8	Education (e.g. studying, schooling, training)
9	Health (e.g. poor/ill health)
10	Retirement
11	Job loss/retrenchment/contract ended
12	For better municipal services
13	Political instability/religious conflict/persecution
14	High levels of crime
15	Drought/Natural disaster
16	Other
17	DO NOT KNOW
88	Not applicable
99	Unspecified

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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