Income and Expenditure Survey 2022-2023

South Africa, 2022 - 2023

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

DOI

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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Dec 19, 2025

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Level of happiness (HAPPINESS)

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

Overview

Valid: 70339

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

loc_start_pos: 128

loc_end_pos: 128

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 9

Format: Numeric

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Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Happier	11599	16.5%
2	The same	19617	27.9%
3	Less happy	18158	25.8%
4	Refused to answer	103	0.1%
8	Not applicable	20839	29.6%
9	Unspecified	23	0%

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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