General Household Survey 2024

South Africa, 2024

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zaf-statssa-ghs-2024-v1

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Jun 02, 2025

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Sector of organisation/business or branch (lab_sector)

Data file: ghs-2024-person-v1

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Valid: 1000

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Width: 16

Range: 1 - 8

Format: Numeric

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Value	Category	Cases
1	In the formal sector (registered to perform an activity)	380	38%
2	In the informal sector (not registered to perform an activity)	37	3.7%
3	DO NOT KNOW	0	0%
8	Not applicable	583	58.3%

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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