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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Energy for lighting (ENG_LIGHT)

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

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Valid: 999

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Width: 2

Range: 1 - 11

Format: Numeric

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Value	Category	Cases
1	Electricity from mains	907	90.8%
2	Other source of electricity	51	5.1%
3	Gas	7	0.7%
4	Paraffin	10	1%
7	Candles	11	1.1%
9	Solar energy	7	0.7%
10	None	0	0%
11	Other	6	0.6%

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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