Quality of Life Survey 2015-2016, Round 4

South Africa, 2015 - 2016

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zaf-gcro-qols-2015-2016-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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1.8 - How is rubbish disposed? (after coding of 'Other verbatim') (Q1_8)

Data file: qol-iv-2014-2015-v1

Overview

Valid: 30002

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

loc_start_pos: 517

loc_end_pos: 517

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 9

Format: Numeric

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Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Refuse removed from the house at least once a week	26330	87.8%
2	Refuse removed from the house less often	634	2.1%
3	Placed on communal refuse dump	527	1.8%
4	Placed on own refuse dump	411	1.4%
5	Burnt in pit	537	1.8%
6	Buried	97	0.3%
7	Thrown in the street or veldt	725	2.4%
8	No refuse removal service at all	725	2.4%
9	Other	16	0.1%

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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