Quality of Life Survey 2020-2021
Round 6
South Africa, 2020 - 2021
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Reference ID
ZAF_2020_QoLS-R6_v01_M
Producer(s)
University of Johannesburg, University of the Witwatersrand, Gauteng Provincial Government, South African Local Government Association (SALGA)
Collection(s)
Metadata
Created on
Mar 08, 2023
Last modified
Mar 08, 2023
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Data file: qols-2020-2021-new-weights-restricted
Overview
Valid:
13617
Invalid:
0
Type:
Discrete
Start:
2617
End:
2686
Width:
70
Range:
-
Format:
character
Questions and instructions
Categories
| Value | Category | Cases | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alcohol abuse | 272 |
2%
|
|
| Corruption | 158 |
1.2%
|
|
| Crime (e.g. robbery, hijacking, murder, etc.) | 4236 |
31.1%
|
|
| Disease (e.g. HIV / AIDS, malaria, diabetes, TB) | 18 |
0.1%
|
|
| Drugs | 1080 |
7.9%
|
|
| Emergencies or disasters (e.g. fire, flood, drought, natural disaster) | 26 |
0.2%
|
|
| Foreigners | 114 |
0.8%
|
|
| Gangs | 23 |
0.2%
|
|
| High cost of living | 311 |
2.3%
|
|
| Lack of basic services (e.g. housing, water, electricity, roads) | 1975 |
14.5%
|
|
| Lack of maintenance (e.g. potholes, street lights, leaking pipes) | 782 |
5.7%
|
|
| Lack of security | 6 |
0%
|
|
| No problem | 645 |
4.7%
|
|
| Other (specify) | 221 |
1.6%
|
|
| Pollution (e.g. air, water, noise, litter, vandalism) | 167 |
1.2%
|
|
| Poverty (e.g. hunger, homelessness, begging) | 95 |
0.7%
|
|
| Protests, unrest, strikes | 6 |
0%
|
|
| Unemployment | 3434 |
25.2%
|
|
| Violence against women and children / domestic violence / rape | 47 |
0.3%
|
|
| q4_2_biggest_problem | 1 |
0%
|
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.