General Household Survey 2024

South Africa, 2024

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Main income source (fin_inc_main)

Data file: ghs-2024-hhold-v1

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Valid: 1000

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Width: 16

Range: 1 - 99

Format: Numeric

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Value	Category	Cases
1	Salaries/wages/commission	630	63%
2	Income from a business	60	6%
3	Remittances (money received from people living elsewhere)	23	2.3%
4	Pensions	80	8%
5	Grants (include old-age grant here)	164	16.4%
6	Sales of farm products and services	0	0%
7	Other income sources, e.g. rental income, interest	31	3.1%
8	No income	12	1.2%
99	Unspecified	0	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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