South African Census 1980

South Africa, 1980

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zaf-dos-census-1980-v1.3

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Department of Statistics (now Statistics South Africa)

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South African Population Censuses and Surveys

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Oct 18, 2012

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Type of dwelling (place enumerated) (DWELTYP1)

Data file: SA Census 1980_Bophuthatswana_v1_2

Overview

Valid: 1512002

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

loc_start_pos: 15

loc_end_pos: 15

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 9

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Question pretext

Must be filled in by the enumerator:

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	House, hut (Traditional home)	1403667	92.8%
2	Semi-detached house	23750	1.6%
3	Flat	11052	0.7%
4	Flat on same erf as house	1515	0.1%
8	Hostel or Kampong	45077	3%
9	Other type of dwelling	26941	1.8%

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.

Description

Definition

This is the dwelling type of the household member where the enumeration took place.

Universe

All households

Source of information

Interviewer's visual observation

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