Demographic and Health Survey 2016
South Africa

South Africa, 2016

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zaf-doh-statssa-dhs-2016-v1

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National Department of Health, Medical Research Council, Statistics South Africa

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type of cooking fuel (hv226)

Data file: ZAPR71FL

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Valid: 0

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

loc_start_pos: 170

loc_end_pos: 171

Width: 2

Range: 1 - 96

Format: Numeric

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Categories

Value	Category
1	electricity
2	lpg
3	natural gas
4	biogas
5	kerosene/paraffin
6	coal, lignite
7	charcoal
8	wood
9	straw/shrubs/grass
10	agricultural crop
11	animal dung
12	electricity from generator
13	electricity from other source
14	solar energy
95	no food cooked in house
96	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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