Table 5.
Demographic characteristics of mixed-generation and child-only households in South Africa, 2006.
| Mixed-generation households |
Child-only households |
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| Percentage (%)a | 95% CIa | Illustrative # | p-valueb | Percentage (%)a | 95% CIa | Illustrative # | |
| Age distribution of childrenc | <0.001 | ||||||
| Children in 0–6 age group | 39.5 | (38.6–0.4) | 7,160,184 | 7.9 | (4.5–11.2) | 9620 | |
| Children in 7–13 age group | 38.4 | (37.6–39.1) | 6,949,417 | 37.1 | (31.0–43.2) | 45,294 | |
| Children in 14–17 group | 22.1 | (21.5–22.7) | 4,007,642 | 55.1 | (48.1–62.1) | 67,327 | |
| All children | 100.0 | 18,117,243 | 100.0 | 122,241 | |||
| Median (IQR) | 9 | (5–13) | <0.001d | 15 | (11–16) | ||
| Oldest child | <0.001d | ||||||
| Median age (IQR) | 13 | (9–16) | 16 | (15–17) | |||
| Oldest child is 15 + years | 38.4 | (36.8–39.9) | 88.3 | (82.1–94.5) | |||
| Genderc | 0.90 | ||||||
| Male | 50.2 | (48.5–52.0) | 9,097,234 | 47.6 | (37.2–58.0) | 60,184 | |
| Female | 49.8 | (48.0–51.5) | 9,014,999 | 52.4 | (42.0–62.8) | 65,286 | |
| Racec | 0.003 | ||||||
| African | 84.2 | (81.9–86.4) | 15,245,877 | 97.4 | (93.7–101.1) | 118,572 | |
| Income poverty (monthly HH expenditure) | |||||||
| < R400/month | 15.1 | (14.0–16.1) | <0.001 | 46.9 | (35.5–58.2) | ||
| <R1200/month | 67.5 | (65.2–69.9) | <0.001 | 88.9 | (80.9–97.0) | ||
| Main income source | <0.001 | ||||||
| Wages | 54.1 | (51.4–56.7) | 7.8 | (3.1–12.4) | |||
| Remittances | 10.7 | (9.8–11.6) | 77.4 | (68.3–86.4) | |||
| Grants | 29.6 | (27.4–31.8) | 6.8 | (0.6–13.1) | |||
| Other | 4.5 | (4.0–5.0) | 4.4 | (0.0–9.0)e | |||
| None | 1.2 | (0.9–1.5) | 3.6 | (0.0–7.8)e | |||
| Access to child support grantc | 0.013 | ||||||
| Uptake: children ≤14 years | 45.8 | (43.9–7.7) | 6,451,380 | 28.6 | (16.1–41.1) | 15,700 | |
| School attendancec | 0.260 | ||||||
| School-age attending (%) | 96.0 | (95.5–96.4) | 10,500,000 | 94.6 | (91.8–97.4) | 106,494 | |
| Employment in the household | |||||||
| Someone working | 62.9 | (60.5–65.3) | 4,757,930 | <0.001 | 5.9 | (2.0–9.9) | 3591 |
| Child > 15 years workingc | 1.2 | (0.8–1.6) | <0.001 | 6.0 | (2.0–10.0) | ||
Note: Own calculations based on General Household Survey 2006. CI – confidence interval; HH – household; # – number; IQR –' interquartile range.
aUnless otherwise stated.
bChi-square test accounting for survey design, unless otherwise stated.
cIndividual level analysis. All other analyses are at household level.
dWilcoxon rank-sum test, unweighted.
eNormal approximation of binomial confidence interval resulted in a reported lower CI below 0 which was rounded up to 0.