Post-Apartheid Socio-Economic Series 1995-2024

South Africa, 1995 - 2024

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zaf-df-pases-1995-2024--v1

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Andrew Kerr, Amy Thornton, Martin Wittenberg

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DataFirst - Harmonised SA Dataset Series

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Nov 21, 2025

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main household income source 2009 onwards (main_inc_source09plus)

Data file: pasesv1

Overview

Valid: 1159633

Invalid: 1288417

Minimum: 1

Maximum: 8

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

loc_start_pos: 142

loc_end_pos: 142

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 8

Format: Numeric

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Value	Category	Cases
1	1. salaries/wages/commission	563478	48.6%
2	2. income from a business	74238	6.4%
3	3. remittances	82945	7.2%
4	4. pensions	30632	2.6%
5	5. grants	392226	33.8%
6	6. sales of farming products and services	1190	0.1%
7	7. other income eg rental	11038	1%
8	8. no income	3886	0.3%
Sysmiss		1288417

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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