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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Alternative drinking water sources (wat_inte_altsource)

Data file: ghs-2022-hhold-v1

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Valid: 1000

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Width: 2

Range: 1 - 88

Format: Numeric

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Value	Category	Cases
1	Borehole	1	0.1%
2	Spring	7	0.7%
3	Well	0	0%
4	Rain-water tank	1	0.1%
5	Dam/pool/stagnant water	0	0%
6	River/stream	1	0.1%
7	Water vendor	4	0.4%
8	Water tanker	8	0.8%
9	Saved/stored water	2	0.2%
10	None	4	0.4%
11	DO NOT KNOW	1	0.1%
12	Other sources of alternative drinking water	9	0.9%
88	Not applicable	962	96.2%

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.

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