General Household Survey 2024

South Africa, 2024

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Jun 02, 2025

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Where contents of pit latrine emptied (san_pit_dispose)

Data file: ghs-2024-hhold-v1

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Valid: 1000

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Width: 16

Range: 1 - 8

Format: Numeric

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Value	Category	Cases
1	Removed by service provider to a treatment plant	20	2%
2	Removed by service provider and buried in a covered pit	0	0%
3	Removed by service provider do not know what they did with it	11	1.1%
4	Emptied by household and buried in a covered pit	6	0.6%
5	Emptied by household into an uncovered pit, open ground, water body, or other	1	0.1%
6	Other	0	0%
7	DO NOT KNOW	1	0.1%
8	Not applicable	961	96.1%

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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