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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Electricity supply (Q528cELSUP)

Data file: ghs_2015_house_v1

Overview

Valid: 21601

Invalid: 0

Minimum: 1

Maximum: 9

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 127

End: 127

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 9

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

Is your electricity supplied by:

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Municipality (pre-paid)	5995	27.8%
2	Municipality (receive a bill from municipality)	1790	8.3%
3	Eskom (pre-paid)	8847	41%
4	Eskom (receive a bill from Eskom)	634	2.9%
5	Private supplier	228	1.1%
6	Do not know	149	0.7%
8	Not applicable	2988	13.8%
9	Unspecified	970	4.5%

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 seeks to establish the supply of the electricity that the households receive. Only the households connected to the MAINS electricity supply should be asked this question.

Description

Universe

All households connected to the MAINS electricity supply

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