General Household Survey 2024

South Africa, 2024

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Energy for space heating (eng_sheat)

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	486	48.6%
2	Other source of electricity (i.e. generator)	10	1%
3	Gas/LPG	48	4.8%
4	Paraffin	42	4.2%
5	Wood	87	8.7%
6	Coal/Charcoal	1	0.1%
8	Animal dung	0	0%
9	NONE	321	32.1%
10	OTHER SOURCE OF ENERGY FOR SPACE HEATING	5	0.5%

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.

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