Quality of Life Survey 2013-2014, Round 3

South Africa, 2013 - 2014

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zaf-gcro-qols-2013-2014-v1

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Gauteng City-Region Observatory, University of Johannesburg, University of the Witwatersrand, Gauteng Provincial Government, South African Local Government Association (SALGA)

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Gauteng City-Region Observatory

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Dec 06, 2016

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How is rubbish disposed? (X1_11)

Data file: qol-iii-2013-2014-v1

Overview

Valid: 27490

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

loc_start_pos: 96

loc_end_pos: 97

Width: 2

Range: -2 - 9

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
-2	No response due to skip scenario	0	0%
-1	Do not know	0	0%
1	Refuse removed from the house at least once a week	23784	86.5%
2	Refuse removed from the house less often	395	1.4%
3	Placed on communal refuse dump	631	2.3%
4	Placed on own refuse dump	399	1.5%
5	Burnt in pit	649	2.4%
6	Buried	79	0.3%
7	Thrown in the street or veldt	1080	3.9%
8	No refuse removal service at all	358	1.3%
9	Other	115	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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