General Household Survey 2010
South Africa, 2010
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Reference ID
ZAF_2010_GHS_v01_M
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Statistics South Africa
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Jan 27, 2012
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Main dwelling five years ago (Q32MainD)
Data file: GHS 2010 House_v2_20111018
Overview
Valid:
25548
Invalid:
0
Type:
Discrete
Decimal:
0
Start:
42
End:
43
Width:
2
Range:
1 - 99
Format:
Numeric
Questions and instructions
Literal question
3.2 Think back five years ago, what type of dwelling/dwellings did this household occupy?
Categories
| Value | Category | Cases | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dwelling/house or brick/concrete block structure on a separate stand or yard or on farm. | 16405 |
64.2%
|
| 2 | Traditional dwelling/hut/structure made of traditional materials | 2737 |
10.7%
|
| 3 | Flat or apartment in a block of flats | 672 |
2.6%
|
| 4 | Cluster house in complex | 74 |
0.3%
|
| 5 | Town house (semi-detached house in complex) | 127 |
0.5%
|
| 6 | Semi-detached house | 282 |
1.1%
|
| 7 | Dwelling/house/flat/room in backyard | 428 |
1.7%
|
| 8 | Informal dwelling/shack in backyard | 1044 |
4.1%
|
| 9 | Informal dwelling/shack not in backyard; e.g. in an informal/squatter settlement or on farm | 1838 |
7.2%
|
| 10 | Room/flatlet on a property or a larger dwelling servants' quarters/granny flat | 360 |
1.4%
|
| 11 | Caravan/tent | 4 |
0%
|
| 12 | Other (specify) | 87 |
0.3%
|
| 13 | Household did not exist | 1342 |
5.3%
|
| 99 | Unspecified | 148 |
0.6%
|
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.