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: residential_history_prepped
Overview
Valid:
878
Invalid:
353
Mean:
2.792
Type:
Discrete
Decimal:
0
Start:
144
End:
146
Width:
3
Range:
-96 - 20
Format:
Numeric
Questions and instructions
Categories
| Value | Category | Cases | |
|---|---|---|---|
| -96 | Other | 22 |
2.5%
|
| 1 | To move closer to family/ friends / my own ethnic group | 53 |
6%
|
| 2 | Change in family circumstance (e.g. birth / death / marriage / divorce / old enough to live independently) | 253 |
28.8%
|
| 3 | Want to move to a larger house | 36 |
4.1%
|
| 4 | Want to move to a house with better quality of construction / housing materials | 30 |
3.4%
|
| 5 | Lower cost of housing | 34 |
3.9%
|
| 6 | Bought or inherited a house / flat / land | 40 |
4.6%
|
| 7 | To find work / better opportunities to find work | 278 |
31.7%
|
| 8 | Closer to place of work / job | 69 |
7.9%
|
| 9 | Closer to better schools | 15 |
1.7%
|
| 10 | Closer to social / cultural life | 3 |
0.3%
|
| 11 | Neighborhood better connected to roads | 5 |
0.6%
|
| 12 | Neighborhood better connected to public transportation | 3 |
0.3%
|
| 13 | Access to health facilities | 1 |
0.1%
|
| 14 | Lower cost of living | 7 |
0.8%
|
| 15 | Safer neighbourhood (less crime) | 6 |
0.7%
|
| 16 | Nicer neighborhood (eg. cleaner / greener / quieter) | 5 |
0.6%
|
| 17 | Better urban services (Electricity / water supply / sewerage / drainage / waste collection) | 1 |
0.1%
|
| 18 | Allocation of RDP house or other state subsidy program | 9 |
1%
|
| 19 | Being evicted | 8 |
0.9%
|
| 20 | Floods or other natural disasters | 0 |
0%
|
| Sysmiss | 353 |
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.