General Household Survey 2025

South Africa, 2025

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zaf-statssa-ghs-2025-v1

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https://doi.org/10.25828/a4a6-p161

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Statistics South Africa

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South African Household Survey Data

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Jun 02, 2026

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Jun 02, 2026

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Wealth/poverty status of you and your household at present (hwl_status)

Data file: ghs-2025-hh-v1

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Valid: 0

Minimum:

Maximum:

Mean:

Standard deviation:

Type: Discrete

Width: 25

Format: Numeric

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Categories

Value	Category
1	1. Wealthy
2	2. Very comfortable
3	3. Reasonably comfortable
4	4. Just getting along
5	5. Poor
6	6. Very poor
9	9. Unspecified

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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