General Household Survey 2020
South Africa, 2020
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ZAF_2020_GHS_v01_EN_M_v01_A_ESS
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Government of South Africa, Statistics South Africa (Stats SA)
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Highest education level (education)
Data file: ghs-2020-person-v1
Overview
Valid:
1000
Invalid:
0
Type:
Discrete
Decimal:
0
Width:
2
Range:
0 - 99
Format:
Numeric
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Categories
| Value | Category | Cases | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | Grade R/0 | 21 |
2.1%
|
| 1 | Grade 1/Sub A/Class 1 | 8 |
0.8%
|
| 2 | Grade 2/Sub B/Class 2 | 14 |
1.4%
|
| 3 | Grade 3/Standard 1/ABET/AET 1 | 26 |
2.6%
|
| 4 | Grade 4/Standard 2 | 20 |
2%
|
| 5 | Grade 5/Standard 3/ABET/AET 2 | 33 |
3.3%
|
| 6 | Grade 6/Standard 4 | 26 |
2.6%
|
| 7 | Grade 7/Standard 5/ABET/AET 3 | 51 |
5.1%
|
| 8 | Grade 8/Standard 6/Form 1 | 48 |
4.8%
|
| 9 | Grade 9/Standard 7/Form 2/ABET/AET 4/NCV Level 1/Occupational Certificate – NQF Level 1 | 60 |
6%
|
| 10 | Grade 10/Standard 8/Form 3/NCV Level 2/Occupational Certificate – NQF Level 2 | 91 |
9.1%
|
| 11 | Grade 11/Standard 9/Form 4/NCV Level 3/Occupational Certificate – NQF Level 3 | 67 |
6.7%
|
| 12 | Grade 12/Standard 10/Form 5/National Senior Certificate/Matric/ NCV Level 4/Occupational Certificate – NQF Level 4 | 278 |
27.8%
|
| 13 | NTC l/N1/NQF 1 | 2 |
0.2%
|
| 14 | NTC ll/N2/NQF 2 | 1 |
0.1%
|
| 15 | NTC lll/N3/NQF 3 | 3 |
0.3%
|
| 16 | N4/NTC 4/Occupational Certificate – NQF Level 5 | 2 |
0.2%
|
| 17 | N5/NTC 5/Occupational Certificate – NQF Level 5 | 2 |
0.2%
|
| 18 | N6/NTC 6/Occupational Certificate – NQF Level 5 | 5 |
0.5%
|
| 19 | Certificate with less than Grade 12/Standard 10 | 0 |
0%
|
| 20 | Diploma with less than Grade 12/Standard 10 | 2 |
0.2%
|
| 21 | Higher/National/Advance certificate with Grade 12/Std 10/Occupational Certificate – NQF Level 5 | 13 |
1.3%
|
| 22 | Diploma with Grade 12/Standard 10/Occupational Certificate – NQF Level 6 | 46 |
4.6%
|
| 23 | Higher Diploma/Occupational Certificate (B-Tech Diploma) – NQF Level 7 | 13 |
1.3%
|
| 24 | Bachelor’s Degree/Occupational Certificate – NQF Level 7 | 40 |
4%
|
| 25 | Honours Degree/Postgraduate Diploma/Occupational Certificate – NQF Level 8 | 9 |
0.9%
|
| 26 | Post Higher Diploma (M-Tech and Master's Degree) – NQF Level 9 | 3 |
0.3%
|
| 27 | Doctoral Degrees (D-Tech and PhD) – NQF Level 10 | 4 |
0.4%
|
| 28 | Other | 7 |
0.7%
|
| 29 | DO NOT KNOW | 17 |
1.7%
|
| 98 | No schooling | 88 |
8.8%
|
| 99 | Unspecified | 0 |
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.