General Household Survey 2024

South Africa, 2024

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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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Type of toilet facility (san_toil)

Data file: ghs-2024-hhold-v1

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Valid: 1000

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Width: 16

Range: 1 - 99

Format: Numeric

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Value	Category	Cases
1	Flush toilet connected to a public sewerage system	935	93.5%
2	Flush toilet connected to a septic tank or conservancy tank	42	4.2%
3	Pour bucket-flush toilet connected to a septic tank (or seepage pit)	1	0.1%
4	Chemical/portable toilet	3	0.3%
5	Pit latrine/toilet with ventilation pipe	1	0.1%
6	Pit latrine/toilet without ventilation pipe, with slab	2	0.2%
7	Pit latrine/toilet without ventilation pipe, either without slab or open pit	1	0.1%
8	Bucket toilet (collected by municipality)	9	0.9%
9	Bucket toilet (emptied by household)	4	0.4%
10	Composting toilet	0	0%
11	Open defecation (e.g. no facilities, field, bush)	1	0.1%
12	OTHER TOILET FACILITY	1	0.1%
99	Unspecified	0	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.

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