General Household Survey 2015

South Africa, 2015

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Reference ID

ZAF_2015_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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Method of receiving mail/post (Q67Mail)

Data file: ghs_2015_house_v1

Overview

Valid: 21601

Invalid: 0

Minimum: 1

Maximum: 99

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 212

End: 213

Width: 2

Range: 1 - 99

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

How does this household receive most of its mail/post?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Delivered to the dwelling	9919	45.9%
2	Delivered to a post box/private bag	2526	11.7%
3	Through friend or neighbour or relative	1615	7.5%
4	Through a shop	356	1.6%
5	Through a school	1039	4.8%
6	Through a workplace	682	3.2%
7	Through a tribal/traditional/local authority office	168	0.8%
8	Do not receive mail	5068	23.5%
9	Other (specify)	128	0.6%
99	Unspecified	100	0.5%

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.

Interviewer instructions

This question is applicable to all households regarding the mail/postal services rendered to them. The instruction to the enumerator is to consider the category that is mostly applicable to the households, especially in cases where more than one category applies.
For any other category that is not applicable to the given categories, provision is made to specify it.

Description

Universe

All households in the selected dwelling units.

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