General Household Survey 2015

South Africa, 2015

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ZAF_2015_GHS_v01_EN_M_v01_A_OCS

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Income sources (Q89bMain)

Data file: ghs_2015_house_v1.1_20160608

Overview

Valid: 21601

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 331

End: 331

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 9

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

Which one of the above income sources is the main source of income?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Salaries/wages/commission	11364	52.6%
2	Income from a business	1577	7.3%
3	Remittances	1642	7.6%
4	Pensions	429	2%
5	Grants	5231	24.2%
6	Sales of farm products and services	28	0.1%
7	Other income sources e.g. rental income, interest	290	1.3%
8	No income	179	0.8%
9	Unspecified	861	4%

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.

Interviewer instructions

This question is applicable to all households and seeks to establish the main source of income in the selected dwelling units. The instruction to the enumerator is to ask for the main source of income, even in cases where more than one is applicable.

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Universe

All households in the selected dwelling units that have an income.

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