General Household Survey 2025
South Africa, 2025
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zaf-statssa-ghs-2025-v1
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Jun 02, 2026
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Main source of water (wat_drinkwat)
Data file: ghs-2025-household-v1
Overview
Valid:
20095
Minimum:
1
Maximum:
16
Mean:
2.7922866384673
Standard deviation:
2.7265199138275
Type:
Discrete
Width:
39
Format:
Numeric
Questions and instructions
Categories
| Value | Category | Cases | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1. Piped (tap) water in dwelling | 8350 |
41.6%
|
| 2 | 2. Piped (tap) water on site or in yard | 6350 |
31.6%
|
| 3 | 3. Borehole on site | 609 |
3%
|
| 4 | 4. Rain-water tank on site | 741 |
3.7%
|
| 5 | 5. Neighbour's tap | 489 |
2.4%
|
| 6 | 6. Public/communal tap | 1821 |
9.1%
|
| 7 | 7. Water-carrier/tanker | 293 |
1.5%
|
| 8 | 8. Water vendor (charge involved) | 481 |
2.4%
|
| 9 | 9. Borehole outside yard | 219 |
1.1%
|
| 10 | 10. Flowing water/stream/river | 366 |
1.8%
|
| 11 | 11. Stagnant water/dam/pool | 42 |
0.2%
|
| 12 | 12. Well protected | 17 |
0.1%
|
| 13 | 13. Well unprotected | 64 |
0.3%
|
| 14 | 14. Spring protected | 40 |
0.2%
|
| 15 | 15. Spring unprotected | 97 |
0.5%
|
| 16 | 16. OTHER SOURCE OF DRINKING WATER | 116 |
0.6%
|
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.