General Household Survey 2022

South Africa, 2022

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Energy for space heating (eng_sheat)

Data file: ghs-2022-hhold-v1

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Valid: 1000

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Width: 2

Range: 1 - 11

Format: Numeric

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Value	Category	Cases
1	Electricity from mains	479	47.9%
2	Other source of electricity	7	0.7%
3	Gas	44	4.4%
4	Paraffin	46	4.6%
5	Wood	79	7.9%
6	Coal	2	0.2%
8	Animal dung	0	0%
9	Solar energy	4	0.4%
10	None	335	33.5%
11	Other source of energy for heating water	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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