General Household Survey 2008

South Africa, 2008

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Statistics South Africa

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Oct 13, 2011

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Causes of piped water interruption (Q428Causs)

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

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Valid: 998

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

loc_start_pos: 241

loc_end_pos: 242

Width: 2

Range: 1 - 99

Format: Numeric

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Value	Category	Cases
1	Burst pipes	152	15.2%
2	Pump not working	7	0.7%
3	General maintenance	13	1.3%
4	Not enough water in the system (demand too high)	1	0.1%
5	Water only delivered at fixed times	9	0.9%
6	Non-payment for services (cut off)	0	0%
7	Vandalism	9	0.9%
8	Other	1	0.1%
9	Do not know	4	0.4%
88	Not applicable	616	61.7%
99	Unspecified	186	18.6%

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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