Income Dynamics and Poverty Status of Households in South Africa

Statistics South Africa has published Report-03-10-10, Income Dynamics and Poverty Status of Households in South Africa, using Census data "to provide supplemental measures to those obtained from household surveys, which mostly focus on monetary poverty measurement.

This report looks at two areas of interest; firstly, to analyse the income levels of households, on nominal values, by looking at their demographic, social, household and geographic characteristics. These household income dynamics are compared between Census 2001 and Census 2011. Secondly, this report looks at making use of census data to profile poverty in South Africa, firstly by profiling poverty using the income variable and further employing the multidimensional index as a measure of poverty. Furthermore, these approaches are compared with each other."