General Household Survey 2022

South Africa, 2022

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Statistics South Africa

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Statistics South Africa African Centre of Excellence for Inequality Research

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Happier, the same or less happy with life (hwl_happy)

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	Happier	291	29.1%
2	The same	353	35.3%
3	Less happy	340	34%
4	REFUSED	2	0.2%
5	DO NOT KNOW	14	1.4%
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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