According to Stats SA, grants were the second-most important source of income (50.5%) for households after salaries (62.2%).
According to Stats SA, the phenomenon of women-headed households is most common in rural areas, particularly in the Eastern Cape and Limpopo .The issue is least common in Gauteng .
“Families and households are profoundly important to the developmental, emotional and cognitive growth of children and parents and/or caregivers can play a central role in this development,” said Stats SA. Less than a third of children lived with both parents, while 45.4% of children lived with their mothers. About one-eighth of children were orphaned, having lost one or both parents.
Skip generation households in which grandparents lived with grandchildren comprised 4.2% of all households. Again, these were most common in the Eastern Cape and Limpopo .According to the survey, the rise of South Africa’s unemployment rate can only push South Africans towards social grants.Household food basket price decreases, but still too high
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