General Household Survey 2015

South Africa, 2015

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Reference ID

ZAF_2015_GHS_v01_M

Producer(s)

Statistics South Africa

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DataFirst , University of Cape Town, South Africa

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Waste separated for recycling (Q535eWastes)

Data file: ghs_2015_house_v1

Overview

Valid: 21601

Invalid: 0

Minimum: 1

Maximum: 9

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 167

End: 167

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 9

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

What do you do with the waste that is separated for recycling?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Fetched by municipality	280	1.3%
2	Fetched by companies contracted by municipality	74	0.3%
3	Fetched by private companies	243	1.1%
4	Taken to drop off point by household	394	1.8%
5	Other	367	1.7%
8	Not Applicable	19877	92%
9	Unspecified	366	1.7%

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.

Interviewer instructions

The question seeks to establish the use of waste that has been recycled.

Description

Universe

All households who separate waste for recycling (Q5.35a = 1).

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