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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Alternative drinking water sources (wat_inte_altsource)
Data file: ghs-2025-household-v1
Overview
Valid:
20095
Minimum:
1
Maximum:
88
Mean:
65.200646927096
Standard deviation:
35.83062560218
Type:
Discrete
Width:
47
Format:
Numeric
Questions and instructions
Categories
| Value | Category | Cases | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1. Borehole | 155 |
0.8%
|
| 2 | 2. Spring | 80 |
0.4%
|
| 3 | 3. Well | 39 |
0.2%
|
| 4 | 4. Rain-water tank | 252 |
1.3%
|
| 5 | 5. Dam/pool/stagnant water | 17 |
0.1%
|
| 6 | 6. River/stream | 149 |
0.7%
|
| 7 | 7. Bottled water | 223 |
1.1%
|
| 8 | 8. Water vendor | 452 |
2.2%
|
| 9 | 9. Water tanker | 1251 |
6.2%
|
| 10 | 10. Saved/stored water | 2562 |
12.7%
|
| 11 | 11. NONE | 253 |
1.3%
|
| 12 | 12. DO NOT KNOW | 7 |
0%
|
| 13 | 13. OTHER sources of alternative drinking water | 357 |
1.8%
|
| 88 | 88. Not applicable | 14298 |
71.2%
|
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.