Income and Expenditure Survey 2022-2023
South Africa, 2022 - 2023
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zaf-statssa-ies-2022-2023-v1.1
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Dec 19, 2025
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Main source of water for drinking (WAT_DRINKWAT)
Data file: ies-2022-2023-households-v1.1
Overview
Valid:
19940
Invalid:
0
Type:
Discrete
Decimal:
0
loc_start_pos:
21
loc_end_pos:
22
Width:
2
Range:
1 - 14
Format:
Numeric
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Categories
| Value | Category | Cases | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Piped (tap) water in dwelling/house | 8197 |
41.1%
|
| 2 | Piped (tap) water in yard | 6064 |
30.4%
|
| 3 | Borehole in yard | 536 |
2.7%
|
| 4 | Rain-water tank in yard | 648 |
3.2%
|
| 5 | Neighbour's tap | 507 |
2.5%
|
| 6 | Public/communal tap | 1856 |
9.3%
|
| 7 | Water-carrier/tanker | 601 |
3%
|
| 8 | Water vendor | 395 |
2%
|
| 9 | Borehole outside yard | 324 |
1.6%
|
| 10 | Flowing water/stream/river | 516 |
2.6%
|
| 11 | Stagnant water/dam/pool | 57 |
0.3%
|
| 12 | Well | 52 |
0.3%
|
| 13 | Spring | 116 |
0.6%
|
| 14 | Other | 71 |
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.