General Household Survey 2015

South Africa, 2015

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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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Causes of piped water interruption (Q519bCaus)

Data file: ghs_2015_house_v1

Overview

Valid: 21601

Invalid: 0

Minimum: 1

Maximum: 99

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 99

End: 100

Width: 2

Range: 1 - 99

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Question pretext

Ask if ‘yes’ in 5.19a

Literal question

If Yes, what was the main reason for the interruption?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	General maintenance	5361	24.8%
2	Water only delivered at fixed times	1043	4.8%
3	Non-payment for services (cut off)	71	0.3%
4	Other (specify)	469	2.2%
5	Do not know	2173	10.1%
88	Not applicable	12191	56.4%
98	Unspecified	0	0%
99		293	1.4%

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 applicable only to households using piped water, regardless of whether it is in the dwelling or communal source. This question seeks to determine the cause of interruptions. For any other reason that is not outlined in the given categories, provision is made in Code 9.

Description

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Only households whose main source of water is supplied by the local municipality.

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