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

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

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Valid: 999

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 9

Format: Numeric

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Value	Category	Cases
1	Wealthy	10	1%
2	Very comfortable	85	8.5%
3	Reasonably comfortable	286	28.6%
4	Just getting along	427	42.7%
5	Poor	138	13.8%
6	Very poor	51	5.1%
9	Unspecified	2	0.2%

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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