Income and Expenditure Survey 2022-2023
South Africa, 2022 - 2023
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zaf-statssa-ies-2022-2023-v1.1
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Statistics South Africa
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Dec 19, 2025
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Apr 21, 2026
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Main reason for movement (MIG_MOVREAS)
Data file: ies-2022-2023-person-v1.1
Overview
Valid:
70339
Invalid:
0
Type:
Discrete
Decimal:
0
loc_start_pos:
174
loc_end_pos:
175
Width:
2
Range:
1 - 99
Format:
Numeric
Questions and instructions
Categories
| Value | Category | Cases | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Start a business/other business reasons | 153 |
0.2%
|
| 2 | Look for paid work | 1309 |
1.9%
|
| 3 | Job transfer/take up a new job opportunity | 478 |
0.7%
|
| 4 | Divorce/separation | 66 |
0.1%
|
| 5 | Moved as a household accompanying a household member | 755 |
1.1%
|
| 6 | New dwelling for household | 1453 |
2.1%
|
| 7 | Moving to live with or be closer to spouse (marriage), family, friends, partner | 1213 |
1.7%
|
| 8 | Education (e.g. studying, schooling, training) | 504 |
0.7%
|
| 9 | Health (e.g. poor/ill health) | 70 |
0.1%
|
| 10 | Retirement | 54 |
0.1%
|
| 11 | Job loss/retrenchment/contract ended | 100 |
0.1%
|
| 12 | For better municipal services | 72 |
0.1%
|
| 13 | Political instability/religious conflict/persecution | 18 |
0%
|
| 14 | High levels of crime | 38 |
0.1%
|
| 15 | Drought/Natural disaster | 5 |
0%
|
| 16 | Other | 623 |
0.9%
|
| 17 | DO NOT KNOW | 16 |
0%
|
| 88 | Not applicable | 63409 |
90.1%
|
| 99 | Unspecified | 3 |
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.