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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Dec 19, 2025
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Main source of income (MAIN_SOURCE_INCOME)
Data file: ies-2022-2023-person-v1.1
Overview
Valid:
70339
Invalid:
0
Type:
Discrete
Decimal:
0
loc_start_pos:
62
loc_end_pos:
63
Width:
2
Range:
1 - 88
Format:
Numeric
Questions and instructions
Categories
| Value | Category | Cases | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Salaries and wages | 13657 |
19.4%
|
| 2 | Net profit from business or professional practice/activities or commercial farming | 1784 |
2.5%
|
| 3 | Income from small-scale farming | 56 |
0.1%
|
| 4 | Income from letting of fixed property | 198 |
0.3%
|
| 5 | Royalties | 16 |
0%
|
| 6 | Interest received and/or accrued on deposits, loans, savings certificates | 42 |
0.1%
|
| 7 | Dividends on shares (e.g. unit trusts) | 24 |
0%
|
| 8 | Income from share trading | 9 |
0%
|
| 9 | Regular receipts from pension from previous employment and pension from annuity funds | 698 |
1%
|
| 10 | Social welfare grants (including old age grant) | 16689 |
23.7%
|
| 11 | Alimony, maintenance and similar allowances from divorced spouse, family members, etc., living elsewhere | 770 |
1.1%
|
| 12 | Regular allowances/remittances received from non-household members | 778 |
1.1%
|
| 13 | Other income | 1190 |
1.7%
|
| 88 | Not applicable | 34428 |
48.9%
|
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.