General Household Survey 2006

South Africa, 2006

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Reference ID

ZAF_2006_GHS_v01_M

Producer(s)

Statistics South Africa

Collection(s)

DataFirst , University of Cape Town, South Africa

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Distance to water source (q420dist)

Data file: GHS 2006 House_v1

Overview

Valid: 27999

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 207

End: 207

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 9

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

4.20 How far is the water source for drinking from the dwelling, yard or site (200m is equal to two football fields)?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Less than 200m	3789	13.5%
2	Between 201m to 500m	2753	9.8%
3	Between 501m to 1km	1111	4%
4	More than 1 km	631	2.3%
5	Don't know	25	0.1%
8	Not applicable	18919	67.6%
9	Unspecified	771	2.8%

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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