Data on Household Welfare in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa

The data contain demographic information of respondents/household, their sources of income and livelihood, indicators or component of food security using household dietary diversity score (HDDS), and relevant information to construct a multidimensional poverty index Three notable findings include: low consumption of nutritious food components in the province, high intensity of multidimensional poverty and standard of living dimension being the major source of multidimensional poverty in the province. How the data can be interpreted: Data can be interpreted using both descriptive statistics and inferential statistics through relevant econometric modelings