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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Dec 19, 2025
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Highest level of education successfully completed (EDUCATION)
Data file: ies-2022-2023-person-v1.1
Overview
Valid:
70339
Invalid:
0
Type:
Discrete
Decimal:
0
loc_start_pos:
64
loc_end_pos:
65
Width:
2
Range:
0 - 98
Format:
Numeric
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Categories
| Value | Category | Cases | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | Grade R/0 | 2287 |
3.3%
|
| 1 | Grade 1/Sub A/Class 1 | 1861 |
2.6%
|
| 2 | Grade 2/Sub B/Class 2 | 2012 |
2.9%
|
| 3 | Grade 3/Standard 1/ABET/AET 1 | 2222 |
3.2%
|
| 4 | Grade 4/ Standard 2 | 2438 |
3.5%
|
| 5 | Grade 5/ Standard 3/ ABET 2/AET 2 | 2567 |
3.6%
|
| 6 | Grade 6/ Standard 4 | 2860 |
4.1%
|
| 7 | Grade 7/Standard 5/ ABET 3/AET 3 | 3837 |
5.5%
|
| 8 | Grade 8/ Standard 6/ Form 1 | 4176 |
5.9%
|
| 9 | Grade 9/Standard 7/Form 2/ABET /AET 4/NCV Level 1/NQF Level 1 | 4466 |
6.3%
|
| 10 | Grade 10/Standard 8/Form 3/NCV Level 2/NQF LEVEL 2 | 5822 |
8.3%
|
| 11 | Grade 11/Standard 9/Form 4/NCV Level 3/NQF Level 3 | 7155 |
10.2%
|
| 12 | Grade12/STANDARD 10/FORM 5/NSE/MATRIC/NCV LEVEL 4/NQF LEVEL 4 | 13313 |
18.9%
|
| 13 | NTC I/N1 | 48 |
0.1%
|
| 14 | NTC II/N2 | 90 |
0.1%
|
| 15 | NTC III/N3 | 169 |
0.2%
|
| 16 | N4/NTC 4/NQF LEVEL 5 | 255 |
0.4%
|
| 17 | N5/NTC 5/NQF LEVEL 5 | 130 |
0.2%
|
| 18 | N6/NTC 6/NQF LEVEL 5 | 343 |
0.5%
|
| 19 | Certificate with Less than Grade 12/Standard 10 | 95 |
0.1%
|
| 20 | Diploma with Less than Grade 12/Standard 10 | 168 |
0.2%
|
| 21 | Higher/National/Advanced Certificate with Grade 12/STD 10/NQF Level 5 | 500 |
0.7%
|
| 22 | Diploma with Grade 12/Standard 10/Occupational Certificate-NQF Level 6 | 1496 |
2.1%
|
| 23 | Higher Diploma/Occupational Certificate (B-Tech Diploma)-NQF Level 7 | 539 |
0.8%
|
| 24 | Bachelors Degree/NQF Level 7 | 1396 |
2%
|
| 25 | Honours Degree/Postgraduate Diploma/NQF Level 8 | 507 |
0.7%
|
| 26 | Post Higher Diploma (Masters Diploma and Masters Degree)-NQF Level 9 | 234 |
0.3%
|
| 27 | Doctoral Degrees (Doctoral Diploma and PHD)-NQF Level 100 | 72 |
0.1%
|
| 28 | Other | 144 |
0.2%
|
| 29 | Do not know | 165 |
0.2%
|
| 98 | No Schooling | 8972 |
12.8%
|
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.