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General Household Survey 2009

South Africa, 2009
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ZAF_2009_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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Other dwelling (q31othrd)

Data file: GHS 2009 House_v1

Overview

Valid: 25303
Invalid: 0
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 40
End: 41
Width: 2
Range: 1 - 99
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
3.1 Indicate the type of main dwelling and other dwelling that the household occupies?
Categories
Value Category Cases
1 Dwelling/house or brick/concrete block structure on a separate stand or yard or on farm 1630
6.4%
2 Traditional dwelling/hut/structure made of traditional materials 3233
12.8%
3 Flat or apartment in a block of flats 18
0.1%
4 Cluster house in complex 0
0%
5 Town house (semi-detached house in complex) 1
0%
6 Semi-Detached house 9
0%
7 Dwelling/house/flat/room in backyard 915
3.6%
8 Informal dwelling/shack in backyard 1416
5.6%
9 Informal dwelling/shack not in backyard, e.g. in an informal/squatter settlement or on farm 230
0.9%
10 Room/flatlet on a property or a larger dwelling servants? quarters/granny flat 108
0.4%
11 Caravan/tent 5
0%
12 Other (specify) 64
0.3%
99 Unspecified 17674
69.8%
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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