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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Statistics South Africa

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South African Household Survey Data

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Jun 02, 2026

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Jun 16, 2026

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Main income source (fin_inc_main)

Data file: ghs-2025-household-v1

Overview

Valid: 20095

Minimum: 1

Maximum: 99

Mean: 2.748146305051

Standard deviation: 2.6300773903482

Type: Discrete

Width: 60

Format: Numeric

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Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	1. Salaries/wages/commission	9619	47.9%
2	2. Income from a business	1652	8.2%
3	3. Remittances (money received from people living elsewhere)	1570	7.8%
4	4. Pensions	652	3.2%
5	5. Grants (include old-age grant here)	6052	30.1%
6	6. Sales of farm products and services	11	0.1%
7	7. Other income sources, e.g. rental income, interest	292	1.5%
8	8. No income	240	1.2%
99	99. Unspecified	7	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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