General Household Survey 2020
South Africa, 2020
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zaf-statssa-ghs-2020-v1
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Type of main dwelling (hsg_maind)
Data file: ghs-2020-hhold-v1
Overview
Valid:
1000
Invalid:
0
Type:
Discrete
Decimal:
0
Width:
2
Range:
1 - 12
Format:
Numeric
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Categories
| Value | Category | Cases | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dwelling/house or brick/concrete block structure on a separate stand or yard or on a farm | 681 |
68.1%
|
| 2 | Traditional dwelling/hut/structure made of traditional materials | 51 |
5.1%
|
| 3 | Flat or apartment in a block of flats | 57 |
5.7%
|
| 4 | Cluster house in complex | 4 |
0.4%
|
| 5 | Townhouse (semi-detached house in complex) | 18 |
1.8%
|
| 6 | Semi-detached house | 52 |
5.2%
|
| 7 | Dwelling/house/flat/room in backyard | 9 |
0.9%
|
| 8 | Informal dwelling/shack in backyard | 36 |
3.6%
|
| 9 | Informal dwelling/shack not in backyard, e.g. in an informal/squatter settlement or on a farm | 81 |
8.1%
|
| 10 | Room/flatlet on a property or a larger dwelling servants' quarters/granny flat | 4 |
0.4%
|
| 11 | Caravan/tent | 1 |
0.1%
|
| 12 | 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.