Percentage of the Population Living in Poverty

The data depicts the percentage of the population living in poverty, based on individual monthly income data from the 2011 national census. A 500m grid was used to map the dwelling frame distribution for South Africa. The resulting dataset was then intersected with the small area layer for the purpose of esmating the area percentages of dwellings within each grid cell. The area percentages for the grid cells were multiplied with the corresponding census count for each small area in order to map the percentange of the population earning below the upper-bound poverty line.