General Household Survey 2006
South Africa, 2006
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Reference ID
ZAF_2006_GHS_v01_M
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Statistics South Africa
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Jan 27, 2012
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Other dwelling five years ago (q42othrd)
Data file: GHS 2006 House_v1
Overview
Valid:
27999
Invalid:
0
Type:
Discrete
Decimal:
0
Start:
26
End:
27
Width:
2
Range:
1 - 99
Format:
Numeric
Questions and instructions
Literal question
4.2 Thinking back five years ago, what type of dwelling/dwellings did this household occupy?
Categories
| Value | Category | Cases | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dwelling/House or brick structure on a separate stand or yard or on farm | 5563 |
19.9%
|
| 2 | Traditional dwelling/Hut/Structure made of traditional materials | 4781 |
17.1%
|
| 3 | Flat or apartment in a block of flats | 189 |
0.7%
|
| 4 | Town/Cluster/Semi-detached house (Simplex, Duplex or Triplex) | 118 |
0.4%
|
| 5 | Unit in retirement village | 7 |
0%
|
| 6 | Dwelling/House/Flat/room in backyard | 679 |
2.4%
|
| 7 | Informal dwelling/Shack in backyard | 866 |
3.1%
|
| 8 | Informal dwelling/Shack not in backyard, e.g. in an informal/squatter settlement or on farm | 694 |
2.5%
|
| 9 | Room/Flatlet | 229 |
0.8%
|
| 10 | Caravan/Tent | 10 |
0%
|
| 11 | Other | 88 |
0.3%
|
| 12 | Household did not exist | 345 |
1.2%
|
| 99 | Unspecified | 14430 |
51.5%
|
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.