Quality of Life Survey 2020-2021
Round 6

South Africa, 2020 - 2021

Reference ID

ZAF_2020_QoLS-R6_v01_M

Producer(s)

University of Johannesburg, University of the Witwatersrand, Gauteng Provincial Government, South African Local Government Association (SALGA)

Collection(s)

DataFirst , University of Cape Town, South Africa

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Mar 08, 2023

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V90 (V90)

Data file: qols-2020-2021-new-weights-restricted

Overview

Valid: 9725

Type: Discrete

Start: 2452

End: 2554

Width: 103

Range: -

Format: character

Questions and instructions

Categories

Value	Cases
Couldnt go anywhere else	281	2.9%
Housing options are better than where I was before	1809	18.6%
I wanted a place with better services (water, electricity, health care options)	407	4.2%
It is safer than where I was before	319	3.3%
My family moved here when I was a child	657	6.8%
Other (specify)	113	1.2%
To access schools/education facilities	515	5.3%
To be close to work	1551	15.9%
To join family or people I know (a partner/spouse, family members, friends, people from home town/area)	2226	22.9%
To look for work	1744	17.9%
To start a business	102	1%
q3_9_reason_moved	1	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.

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