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

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Jan 25, 2017

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Total duration of interruption (Q521inte15)

Data file: ghs_2015_house_v1

Overview

Valid: 21601

Invalid: 0

Minimum: 1

Maximum: 9

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 102

End: 102

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 9

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

If you add all the days that your municipal water supply was interrupted over the last 12 months, was it more than 15 days in total?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Yes	3495	16.2%
2	No	5582	25.8%
3	Do not know	58	0.3%
8	Not applicable	12191	56.4%
9	Unspecified	275	1.3%

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

The aim of this question is to find out whether interruptions in municipality water supply occurred more than 15 days in total over the last 12 months or not. Only households with access to municipality water supply were asked this question.

Description

Universe

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

Imputation and derivation

Derivation

1= Yes
2 = No
3 = Do not know
8 = Not applicable
9 = Unspecified

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