Post-Apartheid Socio-Economic Series 1995-2024

South Africa, 1995 - 2024

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zaf-df-pases-1995-2024-v1.1

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Andrew Kerr, Amy Thornton, Martin Wittenberg

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Nov 21, 2025

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Main household income source 2002-2008 (main_inc_source0208)

Data file: pasesv1.1

Overview

Valid: 714490

Invalid: 1733560

Minimum: 1

Maximum: 6

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

loc_start_pos: 160

loc_end_pos: 160

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 6

Format: Numeric

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Value	Category	Cases
1	1. Salaries and/or wages	368189	51.5%
2	2. Remittances	81435	11.4%
3	3. Pensions and grants	222763	31.2%
4	4. Sales of farm products	7534	1.1%
5	5. Other non-farm income	25407	3.6%
6	6. No income	9162	1.3%
Sysmiss		1733560

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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