General Household Survey 2016

South Africa, 2016

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ZAF_2016_GHS_v02_M

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Statistics South Africa

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DataFirst , University of Cape Town, South Africa

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Aug 14, 2017

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Main source of electricity (Q527BMainelect)

Data file: GHS 2016 Household v1.1 Stata11

Overview

Valid: 21218

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 125

End: 125

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 9

Format: Numeric

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Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	In-house conventional meter	2829	13.3%
2	In-house pre-paid meter	14138	66.6%
3	Connected to other source which the household pays for (e.g. connected to neighbours line and paying neighbours)	1526	7.2%
4	Connected to other source which the household pays for (e.g. connected to neighbours line and not paying)	380	1.8%
5	Generator	11	0.1%
6	Home solar panels	48	0.2%
7	Other	155	0.7%
9	Unspecified	2131	10%

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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