General Household Survey 2008
South Africa, 2008
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zaf-statssa-ghs-2008-v1.4
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Main dwelling (Q41MainD)
Data file: zaf-statssa-ghs-2008-house-v1.4
Overview
Valid:
998
Invalid:
0
Type:
Discrete
Decimal:
0
Width:
2
Range:
1 - 99
Format:
Numeric
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Categories
| Value | Category | Cases | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dwelling/House or brick structure on a separate stand or yard or on farm | 810 |
81.2%
|
| 2 | Traditional dwelling/Hut/Structure made of traditional materials | 6 |
0.6%
|
| 3 | Flat or apartment in a block of flats | 39 |
3.9%
|
| 4 | Town/Cluster/Semi-detached house (Simplex, Duplex or Triplex) | 15 |
1.5%
|
| 5 | Unit in retirement village | 8 |
0.8%
|
| 6 | Dwelling/House/Flat/room in backyard | 8 |
0.8%
|
| 7 | Informal dwelling/Shack in backyard | 57 |
5.7%
|
| 8 | Informal dwelling/Shack not in backyard, e.g. in an informal/squatter settlement or on farm | 42 |
4.2%
|
| 9 | Room/Flatlet | 3 |
0.3%
|
| 10 | Caravan/Tent | 0 |
0%
|
| 11 | Other | 8 |
0.8%
|
| 99 | Unspecified | 2 |
0.2%
|
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.