General Household Survey 2019

South Africa, 2019

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zaf-statssa-ghs-2019-v1

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Statistics South Africa

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

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Main source of electricity (ENG_MAINELECT)

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	In-house conventional meter	119	11.9%
2	In-house pre-paid meter	797	79.8%
3	Connected to other source which the household pays for (e.g. connected to neighbour's line and paying neighbours)	38	3.8%
4	Connected to other source which the household does not pay for (e.g. connected to neighbour's line and not paying)	17	1.7%
5	Generator	2	0.2%
6	Home solar panels	5	0.5%
7	Other	2	0.2%
8	Not applicable	19	1.9%

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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