General Household Survey 2008

South Africa, 2008

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Reference ID

ZAF_2008_GHS_v01_M

Producer(s)

Statistics South Africa

Collection(s)

DataFirst , University of Cape Town, South Africa

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Rubbish removal (q439rubb)

Data file: GHS 2008 House_v1

Overview

Valid: 24333

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 261

End: 261

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 9

Format: Numeric

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Literal question

4.39 How is the refuse or rubbish for this household taken care of?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Removed by local authority at least once a week	13227	54.4%
2	Removed by local authority less often than once a week	471	1.9%
3	Removed by community members at least once a week	112	0.5%
4	Removed by community members less often than once a week	92	0.4%
5	Communal refuse dump/Communal container	349	1.4%
6	Own refuse dump	8766	36%
7	No rubbish removal	1061	4.4%
8	Other	164	0.7%
9	Unspecified	91	0.4%

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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