General Household Survey 2022

South Africa, 2022

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Statistics South Africa African Centre of Excellence for Inequality Research

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Main source of water (wat_drinkwat)

Data file: ghs-2022-hhold-v1

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Valid: 1000

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Width: 2

Range: 1 - 14

Format: Numeric

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Value	Category	Cases
1	Piped (tap) water in dwelling	803	80.3%
2	Piped (tap) water on site or in yard	99	9.9%
3	Borehole on site	3	0.3%
4	Rain-water tank on site	1	0.1%
5	Neighbour's tap	2	0.2%
6	Public/communal tap	87	8.7%
7	Water-carrier/tanker	0	0%
8	Water vendor	0	0%
9	Borehole outside yard	1	0.1%
10	Flowing water/stream/river	2	0.2%
11	Stagnant water/dam/pool	0	0%
12	Well	0	0%
13	Spring	1	0.1%
14	Other source of drinking water	1	0.1%

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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