General Household Survey 2025

South Africa, 2025

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zaf-statssa-ghs-2025-v1

DOI

https://doi.org/10.25828/a4a6-p161

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South African Household Survey Data

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Jun 02, 2026

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Insufficient food for children (fsd_hung_child)

Data file: ghs-2025-household-v1

Overview

Valid: 20095

Minimum: 1

Maximum: 9

Mean: 3.3572530480219

Standard deviation: 2.3829446948982

Type: Discrete

Width: 44

Format: Numeric

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Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	1. Never	9284	46.2%
2	2. Seldom	688	3.4%
3	3. Sometimes	1167	5.8%
4	4. Often	190	0.9%
5	5. Always	59	0.3%
6	6. Not applicable (no children in household)	8705	43.3%
9	9. Unspecified	2	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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