Income and Expenditure Survey 2022-2023

South Africa, 2022 - 2023

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

DOI

https://doi.org/10.25828/z52z-re15

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South African Income Survey Data

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

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Valid: 70339

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

loc_start_pos: 114

loc_end_pos: 114

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 9

Format: Numeric

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Value	Category	Cases
1	In the formal sector	11502	16.4%
2	In the informal sector	3149	4.5%
3	Agriculture	343	0.5%
4	Private households	1452	2.1%
8	Not applicable	53885	76.6%
9	Unspecified	8	0%

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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