General Household Survey 2025

South Africa, 2025

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zaf-statssa-ghs-2025-v1

DOI

https://doi.org/10.25828/a4a6-p161

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South African Household Survey Data

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Insufficient food for adult (fsd_hung_adult)

Data file: ghs-2025-household-v1

Overview

Valid: 20095

Minimum: 1

Maximum: 9

Mean: 1.3929833291864

Standard deviation: 0.90103538668627

Type: Discrete

Width: 42

Format: Numeric

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Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	1. Never	16108	80.2%
2	2. Seldom	1256	6.3%
3	3. Sometimes	2035	10.1%
4	4. Often	389	1.9%
5	5. Always	137	0.7%
6	6. Not applicable (no adults in household)	168	0.8%
9	9. Unspecified	2	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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