General Household Survey 2020

South Africa, 2020

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Main source of electricity (eng_mainelect)

Data file: ghs-2020-hhold-v1

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Valid: 1000

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	65	6.5%
2	In-house pre-paid meter	870	87%
3	Connected to other source which the household pays for (e.g. connected to neighbour's line and paying neighbours)	31	3.1%
4	Connected to other source which the household does not pay for (e.g. connected to neighbour's line and not paying)	2	0.2%
5	Generator	0	0%
6	Home solar panels	3	0.3%
7	Other	4	0.4%
8	Not applicable	25	2.5%

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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