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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Jan 25, 2017

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Duration of water interruption (Q520inte2)

Data file: ghs_2015_house_v1

Overview

Valid: 21601

Invalid: 0

Minimum: 1

Maximum: 9

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 101

End: 101

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 9

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

Thinking about the interruptions in your municipal water supply over the last 12 months, was any specific interruption longer than two days?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Yes	4901	22.7%
2	No	4287	19.8%
3	Do not know	10	0%
8	Not applicable	12191	56.4%
9	Unspecified	212	1%

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 was asked to determine the number of times interruptions in municipal water supply occurred over the last 12 months. It applies only to households with access to piped water supplied by the municipality.

Description

Universe

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

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