General Household Survey 2024

South Africa, 2024

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Energy for lighting (eng_light)

Data file: ghs-2024-hhold-v1

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Valid: 1000

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Width: 16

Range: 1 - 10

Format: Numeric

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Value	Category	Cases
1	Electricity from mains	944	94.4%
2	Other source of electricity (i.e. generator)	35	3.5%
3	Gas/LPG	5	0.5%
4	Paraffin	2	0.2%
7	Candles	10	1%
9	None	0	0%
10	OTHER SOURCE OF ENERGY FOR LIGHTING	4	0.4%

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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