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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Type of toilet facility (SAN_TOIL)

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	Flush toilet connected to a public sewerage system	927	92.8%
2	Flush toilet connected to a septic tank or conservancy tank	28	2.8%
3	Pour bucket-flush toilet connected to a septic tank (or septic pit)	2	0.2%
4	Chemical toilet/portable toilet	10	1%
5	Pit latrine/toilet with ventilation pipe	1	0.1%
6	Pit latrine/toilet without ventilation pipe	4	0.4%
7	Bucket toilet (collected by municipality)	11	1.1%
8	Bucket toilet (emptied by household)	8	0.8%
9	Ecological sanitation system (e.g. composting toilet)	1	0.1%
10	Open defecation (e.g. no facilities, field, bush)	3	0.3%
11	Other	3	0.3%
99	Unspecified	1	0.1%

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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