General Household Survey 2025

South Africa, 2025

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zaf-statssa-ghs-2025-v1

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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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Wealth/poverty status of you and your household at present (hwl_status)

Data file: ghs-2025-household-v1

Overview

Valid: 20095

Minimum: 1

Maximum: 9

Mean: 4.0660860910674

Standard deviation: 0.80136981085917

Type: Discrete

Width: 25

Format: Numeric

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Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	1. Wealthy	62	0.3%
2	2. Very comfortable	394	2%
3	3. Reasonably comfortable	3319	16.5%
4	4. Just getting along	11634	57.9%
5	5. Poor	3763	18.7%
6	6. Very poor	919	4.6%
9	9. Unspecified	4	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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