Measuring Living Standards within Cities, Durban 2015
South Africa, 2015
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Reference ID
ZAF_2015_DURBAN-LSMS_v01_M
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World Bank
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- Data files
- s1_hhroster
- s3_jobs
- s3_jobs_ISIC
- s4_food7days
- s4_nonfood12months
- s4_nonfood30days
- s5_documents
- s5_want
- s6_assets
- s6_assetsagri
- s6_property
- s8_residhistory
- s10_activities
- lsms_household
- landmark_dist
- residential_history_prepped
- tenure_docs
- tenure_docswide
- rr_s3_jobs
- rr_s3_jobs_ISIC
- rr_s10_activities
Factors influencing decisions (s8_fctdecn)
Data file: s8_residhistory
Overview
Valid:
1556
Invalid:
660
Type:
Discrete
Decimal:
0
Start:
144
End:
146
Width:
3
Range:
-96 - 20
Format:
Numeric
Questions and instructions
Categories
| Value | Category | Cases | |
|---|---|---|---|
| -96 | Other | 36 |
2.3%
|
| 1 | To move closer to family/ friends / my own ethnic group | 97 |
6.2%
|
| 2 | Change in family circumstance (e.g. birth / death / marriage / divorce / old enough to live independently) | 427 |
27.4%
|
| 3 | Want to move to a larger house | 79 |
5.1%
|
| 4 | Want to move to a house with better quality of construction / housing materials | 66 |
4.2%
|
| 5 | Lower cost of housing | 88 |
5.7%
|
| 6 | Bought or inherited a house / flat / land | 78 |
5%
|
| 7 | To find work / better opportunities to find work | 439 |
28.2%
|
| 8 | Closer to place of work / job | 115 |
7.4%
|
| 9 | Closer to better schools | 25 |
1.6%
|
| 10 | Closer to social / cultural life | 5 |
0.3%
|
| 11 | Neighborhood better connected to roads | 6 |
0.4%
|
| 12 | Neighborhood better connected to public transportation | 6 |
0.4%
|
| 13 | Access to health facilities | 3 |
0.2%
|
| 14 | Lower cost of living | 26 |
1.7%
|
| 15 | Safer neighbourhood (less crime) | 17 |
1.1%
|
| 16 | Nicer neighborhood (eg. cleaner / greener / quieter) | 10 |
0.6%
|
| 17 | Better urban services (Electricity / water supply / sewerage / drainage / waste collection) | 4 |
0.3%
|
| 18 | Allocation of RDP house or other state subsidy program | 16 |
1%
|
| 19 | Being evicted | 11 |
0.7%
|
| 20 | Floods or other natural disasters | 2 |
0.1%
|
| Sysmiss | 660 |
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.