General Household Survey 2019

South Africa, 2019

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zaf-statssa-ghs-2019-v1

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South African Household Survey Data African Centre of Excellence for Inequality Research

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Ownership of dwelling (HSG_TENURE)

Data file: zaf-statssa-ghs-2019-household-v1

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Valid: 999

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 8

Format: Numeric

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Value	Category	Cases
1	Rented	177	17.7%
2	Owned, but not yet paid off to bank/financial institution	41	4.1%
3	Rented from other (including municipality and social housing institutions)	113	11.3%
4	Owned, but not yet paid off to private lender	6	0.6%
5	Owned and fully paid off	534	53.5%
6	Occupied rent-free	117	11.7%
7	Other	8	0.8%
8	Do not know	3	0.3%

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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