Table I.

Relationship types in the Agincourt DSS and selected national data sets,^a South Africa.

	National data sets: rural sample			Agincourt DSS
Relation to head of household	1995 OHSb	1999 OHS	2003 GHSc	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003
Head	0.177	0.204	0.237	0.102	0.102	0.104	0.105	0.116	0.117	0.126	0.128	0.126
Spouse	0.098	0.077	0.081	0.107	0.105	0.105	0.105	0.105	0.106	0.105	0.104	0.103
Child	0.485	0.409	0.370	0.496	0.496	0.494	0.495	0.481	0.472	0.465	0.461	0.456
Parent	0.009	0.004	0.003	0.016	0.016	0.015	0.015	0.015	0.014	0.013	0.013	0.013
Grandparent	0.003	0.000	0.000	0.001	0.001	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.001	0.001	0.001
Grandchild	0.159	0.209	0.211	0.153	0.157	0.160	0.164	0.167	0.172	0.173	0.174	0.178
Sibling	0.026	0.032	0.030	0.026	0.025	0.025	0.024	0.025	0.023	0.023	0.024	0.024
Relative	0.038	0.057	0.061	0.082	0.081	0.083	0.084	0.089	0.093	0.092	0.092	0.095
Daughter/son-in-law				0.023	0.023	0.023	0.022	0.023	0.022	0.021	0.021	0.021
Nephew/niece				0.036	0.035	0.036	0.036	0.038	0.039	0.038	0.038	0.038
Brother/sister-in-law				0.006	0.006	0.005	0.005	0.005	0.006	0.005	0.005	0.005
Stepchild				0.001	0.001	0.002	0.002	0.003	0.003	0.004	0.004	0.005
Other related				0.016	0.017	0.018	0.018	0.020	0.022	0.023	0.025	0.027
Unrelated	0.004	0.006	0.006	0.002	0.002	0.002	0.001	0.001	0.002	0.002	0.002	0.002
Unknown		0.000	0.000	0.015	0.015	0.012	0.007	0.001	0.000	0.000	0.001	0.001
n	62553	49865	45894	58913	59384	60372	60709	59759	57372	56627	56911	55392

Source: Own calculations from the Agincourt DSS database and Statistics South Africa public release data sets. The Statistics South Africa figures have been calculated using the Statistics South Africa individual weights.

^aThe table contains column percentages plus, in the Agincourt data, a more detailed breakdown of the ‘relative’ category given in bold.

^bOctober Household Survey.

^cGeneral Household Survey.