General Household Survey 2019

South Africa, 2019

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zaf-statssa-ghs-2019-v1

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

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Relationship to the household head (HHC_RELATIONSHIP)

Data file: zaf-statssa-ghs-2019-person-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	Head/acting head	317	31.7%
2	Husband/wife/partner of household head	171	17.1%
3	Son/daughter/stepchild/adopted child of household head	314	31.4%
4	Brother/sister/stepbrother/stepsister of household head	22	2.2%
5	Father/mother/stepfather/stepmother of household head	10	1%
6	Grandparent/great grandparent of household head	1	0.1%
7	Grandchild/great grandchild of household head	88	8.8%
8	Other relative (e.g. in-laws or aunt/uncle) of household head	52	5.2%
9	Non-related persons	23	2.3%
99	Unspecified	1	0.1%

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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