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

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Valid: 999

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Width: 2

Range: 1 - 99

Format: Numeric

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Value	Category	Cases
1	Removed by local authority/private company/community members at least once a week	878	87.9%
2	Removed by local authority/private company/community members less often than once a week	11	1.1%
3	Communal refuse dump	36	3.6%
4	Communal container/central collection point	33	3.3%
5	Own refuse dump	36	3.6%
6	Dump or leave rubbish anywhere	4	0.4%
7	Other	1	0.1%
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.

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