General Household Survey 2017

South Africa, 2017

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Oct 24, 2018

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Main dwelling (Q51MainD)

Data file: GHS 2017 Household v1.0 Stata11

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Categories

Value	Category
1	Dwelling/house or brick/concrete block structure on a separate stand or yard or on farm
2	Traditional dwelling/hut/structure made of traditional materials
3	Flat or apartment in a block of flats
4	Cluster house in complex
5	Town house (semi-detached house in complex)
6	Semi-detached house
7	Dwelling/house/flat/room in backyard
8	Informal dwelling/shack in backyard
9	Informal dwelling/shack not in backyard, e.g. in an informal/squatter settlement or on farm
10	Room/flatlet on a property or a larger dwelling servants' quarters/granny flat
11	Caravan/tent
12	Other

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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Main dwelling

Imputation and derivation

Imputation

Main dwelling

Others

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Main dwelling

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