Dataset: South Africa Census, 1996: Household (10% Sample)

Variable hinchh: Highest individual income in household

Literal Question

Think of the past year (1 October 1995 to 30 September 1996) and the money each person received. Please indicate each person's income category before tax.

Descriptive Text

Respondents could choose to think of income in terms of weekly, monthly or annual amounts. The census questionnaire gave the following instructions: ‘Think of the past year (1 October 1995 to 30 September 1996) and the money each person received. Please indicate each person’s income category before tax. … Include all sources of income, for example, housing loan subsidies, bonuses, allowances such as car allowances and investment income. If the person receives a pension or disability grant, please include this amount.’ The income asked for therefore included both income earned from work and other income. This question was asked of all persons, whether working or not at the time of the census. However, for many purposes, users may want to restrict this to all persons aged 15 years or older, or all employed persons. Individual income was used in the derivation of a crude estimate of household income. See the section on household income for more detail. Household income is presented in annual amounts. The variable was derived form census records for persons.

Values Categories N NW
1 None 154666 1,648,164.6
 18.2%
2 R00001 - R00200 39854 432,704.1
 4.8%
3 R00201 - R00500 157385 1,681,439.3
 18.6%
4 R00501 - R01000 94488 1,011,093.9
 11.2%
5 R01001 - R01500 80859 860,963.7
 9.5%
6 R01501 - R02500 71089 759,483.1
 8.4%
7 R02501 - R03500 43019 462,253.0
 5.1%
8 R03501 - R04500 30901 333,812.8
 3.7%
9 R04501 - R06000 29946 324,060.2
 3.6%
10 R06001 - R08000 17945 195,090.3
 2.2%
11 R08001 - R11000 12682 137,869.8
 1.5%
12 R11001 - R16000 7815 84,820.8
 0.9%
13 R16001 - R30000 4790 51,800.5
 0.6%
14 R30001+ 1809 19,551.9
 0.2%
98 N/A: Institution 0 0.0
 0.0%
99 Unspecified 99230 1,056,040.8
 11.7%

Summary Statistics

Valid cases 846478 9059148.74
Missing cases 0 0.0
Minimum 1.0
Maximum 99.0
This variable is numeric

Universe

All persons on household questionnaires

Notes

Income was collected in categories rather than single rand amounts to increase the response rate and to obtain more accurate data.

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