General Household Survey 2013

South Africa, 2013

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ZAF_2013_GHS_v01_M

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Statistics South Africa

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DataFirst , University of Cape Town, South Africa

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Sep 18, 2014

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Causes of piped water interruption (Q519bCaus)

Data file: ghs-2013-house-v1-20140620

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Valid: 25786

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 114

End: 115

Width: 2

Range: 1 - 99

Format: Numeric

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Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Burst pipes	3314	12.9%
2	Pump not working	700	2.7%
3	General maintenance	2219	8.6%
4	Not enough water in the system (demand too high)	1247	4.8%
5	Water only delivered at fixed times	686	2.7%
6	Non-payment for services (cut off)	67	0.3%
7	Vandalism	45	0.2%
8	Construction	165	0.6%
9	Other (specify)	133	0.5%
10	Do not know	2017	7.8%
88	Not applicable	14877	57.7%
99	Unspecified	316	1.2%

Warning: these figures indicate the number of cases found in the data file. They cannot be interpreted as summary statistics of the population of interest.

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