General Household Survey 2024

South Africa, 2024

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ZAF_2024_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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Jul 08, 2025

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Alternative source of energy for cooking (eng_cook_alt)

Data file: ghs-2024-hhold-v1

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Valid: 1000

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Width: 16

Range: 1 - 88

Format: Numeric

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Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Other sources of electricity (i.e. generator; battery bank with inverter; solar power hybrid systems)	5	0.5%
2	Gas	142	14.2%
3	Paraffin	6	0.6%
4	Wood	8	0.8%
5	Coal / Charcoal	0	0%
6	Animal dung	0	0%
7	NONE	89	8.9%
8	OTHER ALTERNATIVE ENERGY FOR COOKING	1	0.1%
88	Not applicable	749	74.9%

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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