General Household Survey 2002
South Africa, 2002
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zaf-statssa-ghs-2002-v1.3
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Aug 29, 2011
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Main dwelling five years ago (Q42MainD)
Data file: ghs-2002-house-v1.3
Overview
Valid:
998
Invalid:
0
Type:
Discrete
Decimal:
0
loc_start_pos:
21
loc_end_pos:
22
Width:
2
Range:
1 - 99
Format:
Numeric
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Categories
| Value | Category | Cases | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dwelling/House or brick structure on a separate stand or yard or on farm | 570 |
57.1%
|
| 2 | Traditional dwelling/Hut/Structure made of traditional materials | 1 |
0.1%
|
| 3 | Flat or apartment in a block of flats | 171 |
17.1%
|
| 4 | Town/Cluster/Semi-detached house (Simplex, Duplex or Triplex) | 123 |
12.3%
|
| 5 | Unit in retirement village | 0 |
0%
|
| 6 | Dwelling/House/Flat/room in backyard | 17 |
1.7%
|
| 7 | Informal dwelling/Shack in backyard | 15 |
1.5%
|
| 8 | Informal dwelling/Shack not in backyard, e.g. in an informal/squatter settlement or on farm | 16 |
1.6%
|
| 9 | Room/Flatlet | 32 |
3.2%
|
| 10 | Caravan/Tent | 0 |
0%
|
| 11 | Other | 5 |
0.5%
|
| 12 | Household did not exist | 48 |
4.8%
|
| 99 | Unspecified | 0 |
0%
|
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.