General Household Survey 2022

South Africa, 2022

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Statistics South Africa 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: ghs-2022-hhold-v1

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Valid: 1000

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 9

Format: Numeric

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Value	Category	Cases
1	Wealthy	7	0.7%
2	Very comfortable	77	7.7%
3	Reasonably comfortable	287	28.7%
4	Just getting along	428	42.8%
5	Poor	143	14.3%
6	Very poor	58	5.8%
9	Unspecified	0	0%

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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