NavGeneral InfoEmail Print Original or alternative title GHS 2022 Provider DataFirstMicrodata access: Register Geography South Africa (ZAF) Coverage type Country Time period covered 05/2022 - 12/2022 Series or system South Africa General Household Survey Data type Survey: Cross-sectionalDe jureHouseholdIndividualInterviewNationally representativeUrban-rural representative Summary "The General Household Survey (GHS) is an annual household survey which measures the living circumstances of South African households. The GHS collects data on education, health, and social development, housing, access to services and facilities, food security, and agriculture." Source: DataFirst The 2022 GHS interviewed 19,351 households. Keywords Absenteeism, Agriculture, Assets, Asthma, Bullying, COVID-19, COVID-19 vaccines, Cancers, Child care, Child labor, Cooking fuels, Crops, Diabetes, Disability, Education, Education access, Education expenditures, Electricity, Employment, Employment benefits, Family composition, Fishing, Food security, HIV and AIDS, Health care use, Health insurance, Health status, Hearing loss, Household air pollution, Household expenditures, Household heat, Household water treatment, Housing conditions, Housing materials, Hygiene, Hypertension, Income, Internet, Interpersonal violence, Lighting, Limited mobility, Livestock, Lower respiratory infections, Marital status, Mass media, Menstruation, Mental health symptoms, Musculoskeletal diseases, Parental survival, Pregnancy, Public social assistance, Refrigeration, Sanitation, School enrollment, Stroke, Telephones, Transportation, Tuberculosis, Unemployment, Vision loss, Waste disposal, Water supply Citation Contributors Statistics South Africa Publisher DataFirst Publication year 2023 Suggested citation Statistics South Africa. South Africa General Household Survey 2022. Cape Town, South Africa: DataFirst, 2023. GHDx Entry last modified on: Mar 12, 2025