General Household Survey 2015

South Africa, 2015

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Reference ID

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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Energy for cooking (Q531Cook)

Data file: ghs_2015_house_v1

Overview

Valid: 21601

Invalid: 0

Minimum: 1

Maximum: 99

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 138

End: 139

Width: 2

Range: 1 - 99

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

What is the main source of energy/fuel for this household?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Electricity from mains	16700	77.3%
2	Electricity from generator	442	2%
3	Gas	736	3.4%
4	Paraffin	1141	5.3%
5	Wood	2302	10.7%
6	Coal	117	0.5%
7	Candles	25	0.1%
8	Animal dung	25	0.1%
9	Solar energy	38	0.2%
10	Other, specify	45	0.2%
11	None	30	0.1%
99	Unspecified	0	0%

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 identify the source of energy that households use for cooking, heating, lighting and water heating in general, during winter and summer. The instruction to the enumerator is to ask for the main source used for the above, even if more than one source is used.
For any other source that is not outlined in the given categories, provision has been made to specify it.

Description

Universe

All households in the selected dwelling units.

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