General Household Survey 2024

South Africa, 2024

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Reference ID

ZAF_2024_GHS_v01_M

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Statistics South Africa

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DataFirst , University of Cape Town, South Africa

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Jul 08, 2025

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Alternative drinking water sources (wat_inte_altsource)

Data file: ghs-2024-hhold-v1

Overview

Valid: 1000

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Width: 16

Range: 1 - 88

Format: Numeric

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Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Borehole	1	0.1%
2	Spring	2	0.2%
3	Well	2	0.2%
4	Rain-water tank	1	0.1%
5	Dam/pool/stagnant water	0	0%
6	River/stream	0	0%
7	Bottled water	8	0.8%
8	Water vendor	0	0%
9	Water tanker	18	1.8%
10	Saved/stored water	3	0.3%
11	NONE	1	0.1%
12	DO NOT KNOW	0	0%
13	OTHER sources of alternative drinking water	8	0.8%
88	Not applicable	956	95.6%

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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