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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Statistics South Africa
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Dec 19, 2025
Last modified
Apr 21, 2026
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Language most spoken in the household (LANGUAGES)
Data file: ies-2022-2023-person-v1.1
Overview
Valid:
70339
Invalid:
0
Type:
Discrete
Decimal:
0
loc_start_pos:
33
loc_end_pos:
34
Width:
2
Range:
1 - 14
Format:
Numeric
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Categories
| Value | Category | Cases | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Afrikaans | 6588 |
9.4%
|
| 2 | English | 4149 |
5.9%
|
| 3 | IsiNdebele | 1136 |
1.6%
|
| 4 | IsiXhosa | 12427 |
17.7%
|
| 5 | IsiZulu | 17619 |
25%
|
| 6 | Khoi, Nama, San and San languages | 13 |
0%
|
| 7 | Sepedi | 7362 |
10.5%
|
| 8 | Sesotho | 6240 |
8.9%
|
| 9 | Setswana | 6852 |
9.7%
|
| 10 | Sign language | 8 |
0%
|
| 11 | Siswati | 1922 |
2.7%
|
| 12 | Tshivenda | 1793 |
2.5%
|
| 13 | Xitsonga | 3342 |
4.8%
|
| 14 | Other | 888 |
1.3%
|
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.