General Household Survey 2022

South Africa, 2022

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Relationship to the household head (hhc_relationship)

Data file: ghs-2022-person-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	Head/acting head	330	33%
2	Husband/wife/partner of household head	150	15%
3	Son/daughter/stepchild/adopted child of household head	319	31.9%
4	Brother/sister/stepbrother/stepsister of household head	41	4.1%
5	Father/mother/stepfather/stepmother of household head	13	1.3%
6	Grandparent/great grandparent of household head	0	0%
7	Grandchild/great grandchild of household head	96	9.6%
8	Other relative (e.g. in-laws or aunt/uncle) of household head	36	3.6%
9	Non-related persons	15	1.5%
99	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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