General Household Survey 2023

South Africa, 2023

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ZAF_2023_GHS_v01_M_v01_A_ESS

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Government of South Africa, Statistics South Africa (Stats SA)

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Agricultural Surveys

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May 22, 2026

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

Data file: ghs-2023-hhold-v1

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Valid: 1000

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Width: 25

Range: 1 - 9

Format: Numeric

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Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	1. Wealthy	5	0.5%
2	2. Very comfortable	61	6.1%
3	3. Reasonably comfortable	305	30.5%
4	4. Just getting along	406	40.6%
5	5. Poor	170	17%
6	6. Very poor	52	5.2%
9	9. Unspecified	1	0.1%

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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