General Household Survey 2015

South Africa, 2015

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Reference ID

ZAF_2015_GHS_v01_M

Producer(s)

Statistics South Africa

Collection(s)

DataFirst , University of Cape Town, South Africa

Metadata

Documentation in PDF DDI/XML JSON

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Jan 25, 2017

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Oct 05, 2021

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Interview language (Q101Lan)

Data file: ghs_2015_house_v1

Overview

Valid: 21601

Invalid: 0

Minimum: 1

Maximum: 99

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 398

End: 399

Width: 2

Range: 1 - 99

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

In what language was the main part of the interview conducted?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Afrikaans	1695	7.8%
2	English	3328	15.4%
3	IsiNdebele/South Ndebele/North Ndebele	205	0.9%
4	IsiXhosa/Xhosa	3139	14.5%
5	IsiZulu/Zulu	5097	23.6%
6	Sepedi/Northern Sotho	2197	10.2%
7	Sesotho/Southern Sotho/Sotho	1864	8.6%
8	Setswana/Tswana	2467	11.4%
9	Siswati/Swazi	556	2.6%
10	Tshivenda/Venda	480	2.2%
11	Xitsonga/Tsonga	482	2.2%
99	Unspecified	91	0.4%

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 asked to determine most used language during interview.

Description

Universe

All households in the selected dwelling units.

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