General Household Survey 2020

South Africa, 2020

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zaf-statssa-ghs-2020-v1

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Statistics South Africa

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South African Household Survey Data

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Dec 07, 2021

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Main Income sources (fin_inc_main)

Data file: ghs-2020-hhold-v1

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Valid: 1000

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Width: 2

Range: 1 - 99

Format: Numeric

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Value	Category	Cases
1	Salaries/wages/commission	409	40.9%
2	Income from a business	64	6.4%
3	Remittances	38	3.8%
4	Pensions	49	4.9%
5	Grants	305	30.5%
6	Sales of farm products and services	1	0.1%
7	Other income sources, e.g. rental income, interest	12	1.2%
88	Not applicable	39	3.9%
99	Unspecified	83	8.3%

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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