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General Household Survey 2008

South Africa, 2008
Statistics South Africa
Statistics South Africa
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Main dwelling five years ago (Q42MainD)

Data file: zaf-statssa-ghs-2008-house-v1.4

Overview

Valid: 998
Invalid: 0
Type: discrete
Decimal: 0
loc_width: 2
var_range: 1 - 99
var_format: numeric

Questions and instructions

Categories
Value Category Cases
1 Dwelling/House or brick structure on a separate stand or yard or on farm 789
79.1%
2 Traditional dwelling/Hut/Structure made of traditional materials 8
0.8%
3 Flat or apartment in a block of flats 38
3.8%
4 Town/Cluster/Semi-detached house (Simplex, Duplex or Triplex) 15
1.5%
5 Unit in retirement village 9
0.9%
6 Dwelling/House/Flat/room in backyard 10
1%
7 Informal dwelling/Shack in backyard 44
4.4%
8 Informal dwelling/Shack not in backyard, e.g. in an informal/squatter settlement or on farm 41
4.1%
9 Room/Flatlet 3
0.3%
10 Caravan/Tent 0
0%
11 Other 10
1%
12 Household did not exist 27
2.7%
99 Unspecified 4
0.4%
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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