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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Type of toilet facility (Q522Toil)

Data file: ghs_2015_house_v1

Overview

Valid: 21601

Invalid: 0

Minimum: 1

Maximum: 99

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 103

End: 104

Width: 2

Range: 1 - 99

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

What type of toilet facility is used by this household?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Flush toilet connected to a public sewerage system	12269	56.8%
2	Flush toilet connected to a septic tank	715	3.3%
3	Chemical toilet	52	0.2%
4	Pit latrine/toilet with ventilation pipe	4006	18.5%
5	Pit latrine/toilet without ventilation pipe	3316	15.4%
6	Bucket toilet (collected by municipality)	188	0.9%
7	Bucket toilet (emptied by household)	54	0.2%
8	Ecological Sanitation System	37	0.2%
9	None	825	3.8%
10	Other (specify)	66	0.3%
99	Unspecified	73	0.3%

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

This question deals with the type of toilet facility available for selected dwelling units. The instruction to the enumerator is to ask for the main toilet used by the household, even if there is more than one in the selected dwelling. The households who use either one of Options 2 to 6, should skip to Q5.24.
For households without any toilet facility, there is a skip instruction to Q5.27.

Question post text

1 = Flush toilet connected to a public sewerage system
2 = Flush toilet connected to a septic tank - Go to Q5.24
3 = Chemical toilet - Go to Q5.24
4 = Pit latrine/toilet with ventilation pipe - Go to Q5.24
5 = Pit latrine/toilet without ventilation pipe - Go to Q5.24
6 = Bucket toilet (collected by municipality) - Go to Q5.24
7 = Bucket toilet (emptied by household) - Go to Q5.24
8 = Ecological Sanitation System - Go to Q5.24
9 = None - Go to Q 5.27
10 = Other (specify) - Go to Q 5.24

Description

Universe

All households in the selected dwelling units.

Imputation and derivation

Derivation

1 = Flush toilet connected to a public sewerage system
2 = Flush toilet connected to a septic tank
3 = Chemical toilet
4 = Pit latrine/toilet with ventilation pipe
5 = Pit latrine/toilet without ventilation pipe
6 = Bucket toilet (collected by municipality)
7 = Bucket toilet (emptied by household)
8 = Ecological Sanitation System
9 = None
10 = Other (specify)
99 = Unspecified

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