Community Survey 2016

South Africa, 2016

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zaf-statssa-cs-2016-v1

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Statistics South Africa

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South African Population Censuses and Surveys

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Jun 02, 2017

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Main source of energy for lighting (EnergyLight)

Data file: cs-2016-household

Overview

Valid: 984627

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

loc_start_pos: 97

loc_end_pos: 98

Width: 2

Range: 1 - 99

Format: Numeric

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Value	Category	Cases
1	Electricity from mains	879893	89.4%
2	Other source of electricity (e.g. generator; etc.)	1759	0.2%
3	Gas	1413	0.1%
4	Paraffin	25776	2.6%
7	Candles	63892	6.5%
9	Solar	6871	0.7%
10	Other	1362	0.1%
11	None	2023	0.2%
99	Unspecified	1638	0.2%

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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