Population Census 1996

South Africa, 1996

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ZAF_1996_PHC_v01_M

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Statistics South Africa

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DataFirst , University of Cape Town, South Africa

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Number of households sharing one room (nsharedh)

Data file: SA Census 1996 Hhold_v01

Overview

Valid: 0

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Width: 8

Range: 0 - 99

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

1.5.1 (If 1 room for the whole household (in 1.5)) Do you share this room with any other households?

1.5.2 (If “Yes” (in 1.5.1)) How many households?

Value	Category
0	Not sharing (or unspecified)
10	10 or more households sharing
97	Not applicable: Living in 0 or >1 room/rooms NS
99	Unspecified

Description

Definition

This variable reflects the number of other households are sharing a single room with the enumerated household if that household answered in the affirmative for the preceding question.

Universe

All households living in a single room at night between Wednesday 9 October and Thursday 10 October 1996.

Source of information

South African Census 1996 household and personal questionnaire - completed by the enumerator or a household member

Others

Notes

All households that lived in one room were asked ‘Do you share this room with any other households?’. If so, they were then asked ‘How many households?’. These two questions have been combined together in this variable for the final census data set.

The questions on households sharing one room were included to measure the level of overcrowding of accommodation. If no response was given to these questions, it was assumed in coding that the households were not sharing the room.

Care should be taken to ensure that households are not double counted when analysing this data as all households sharing a room would have been enumerated separately and each should have stated they were sharing a room. Each household should have stated how many other households were sharing the room, although some may have included their own household in the count.

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