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General Household Survey 2004

South Africa, 2004
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ZAF_2004_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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Jan 27, 2012
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    House_v1
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    Worker_v1

Mail/post (q459mail)

Data file: GHS 2004 House_v1

Overview

Valid: 26190
Invalid: 0
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 279
End: 280
Width: 2
Range: 1 - 99
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
4.59 How does this household receive most of its mail/post?
Categories
Value Category Cases
1 Delivered to the dwelling 9862
37.7%
2 Delivered to a post box / private bag 6026
23%
3 Through friend or neighbour 1363
5.2%
4 Through shop 1870
7.1%
5 Through school 1419
5.4%
6 Through workplace 2352
9%
7 Through a tribal / local authority office 189
0.7%
8 Do not receive mail 2964
11.3%
9 Other 116
0.4%
99 Unspecified 29
0.1%
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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