General Household Survey 2019

South Africa, 2019

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zaf-statssa-ghs-2019-v1

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Statistics South Africa

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South African Household Survey Data African Centre of Excellence for Inequality Research

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Income sources (FIN_INC_MAIN)

Data file: zaf-statssa-ghs-2019-household-v1

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Valid: 999

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Width: 2

Range: 1 - 99

Format: Numeric

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Value	Category	Cases
1	Salaries/wages/commission	634	63.5%
2	Income from a business	75	7.5%
3	Remittances	25	2.5%
4	Pensions	62	6.2%
5	Grants	144	14.4%
6	Sales of farm products and services	0	0%
7	Other income sources, e.g. rental income, interest	29	2.9%
88	Not applicable	12	1.2%
99	Unspecified	18	1.8%

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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