General Household Survey 2024

South Africa, 2024

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Jun 02, 2025

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Wealth/poverty status of you and your household at present (hwl_status)

Data file: ghs-2024-hhold-v1

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Valid: 1000

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Width: 16

Range: 1 - 9

Format: Numeric

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Value	Category	Cases
1	Wealthy	9	0.9%
2	Very comfortable	54	5.4%
3	Reasonably comfortable	299	29.9%
4	Just getting along	439	43.9%
5	Poor	153	15.3%
6	Very poor	45	4.5%
9	Unspecified	1	0.1%

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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