Income and Expenditure Survey 2022-2023

South Africa, 2022 - 2023

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zaf-statssa-ies-2022-2023-v1.1

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https://doi.org/10.25828/z52z-re15

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South African Income Survey Data

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Data file: ies-2022-2023-households-v1.1

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Valid: 19940

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

loc_start_pos: 40

loc_end_pos: 40

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 8

Format: Numeric

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Value	Category	Cases
1	In-house conventional meter	2357	11.8%
2	In-house pre-paid meter	15573	78.1%
3	Connected to other sources which the household pays	469	2.4%
4	Connected to other sources which the household does not pay	482	2.4%
5	Generator	0	0%
6	Solar energy	29	0.1%
7	Other	28	0.1%
8	Not applicable	1002	5%

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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