General Household Survey 2025
South Africa, 2025
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zaf-statssa-ghs-2025-v1
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Jun 02, 2026
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Type of toilet facility (san_toil)
Data file: ghs-2025-household-v1
Overview
Valid:
20095
Minimum:
1
Maximum:
99
Mean:
2.8114953968649
Standard deviation:
2.4737493566512
Type:
Discrete
Width:
79
Format:
Numeric
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Categories
| Value | Category | Cases | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1. Flush toilet connected to a public sewerage system | 11562 |
57.5%
|
| 2 | 2. Flush toilet connected to a septic tank or conservancy tank | 1000 |
5%
|
| 3 | 3. Pour bucket-flush toilet connected to a septic tank (or seepage pit) | 84 |
0.4%
|
| 4 | 4. Chemical/portable toilet | 179 |
0.9%
|
| 5 | 5. Pit latrine/toilet with ventilation pipe | 4064 |
20.2%
|
| 6 | 6. Pit latrine/toilet without ventilation pipe, with slab | 2091 |
10.4%
|
| 7 | 7. Pit latrine/toilet without ventilation pipe, either without slab or open pit | 717 |
3.6%
|
| 8 | 8. Bucket toilet (collected by municipality) | 109 |
0.5%
|
| 9 | 9. Bucket toilet (emptied by household) | 41 |
0.2%
|
| 10 | 10. Composting toilet | 27 |
0.1%
|
| 11 | 11. Open defecation (e.g. no facilities, field, bush) | 168 |
0.8%
|
| 12 | 12. OTHER TOILET FACILITY | 52 |
0.3%
|
| 99 | 99. Unspecified | 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.