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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Statistics South Africa

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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: 326

loc_end_pos: 326

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 9

Format: Numeric

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Value	Category	Cases
1	As a main source of food for the household	789	4%
2	As an extra source of food for the household	2208	11.1%
3	As the main source of income/earning a living	98	0.5%
4	As an extra source of income	193	1%
5	As leisure activity or hobby e.g. gardening	157	0.8%
6	Other	14	0.1%
8	Not applicable	16323	81.9%
9	Unspecified	158	0.8%

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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