General Household Survey 2025

South Africa, 2025

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zaf-statssa-ghs-2025-v1

DOI

https://doi.org/10.25828/a4a6-p161

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South African Household Survey Data

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Jun 02, 2026

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Where contents of pit latrine emptied (san_pit_dispose)

Data file: ghs-2025-household-v1

Overview

Valid: 20095

Minimum: 1

Maximum: 8

Mean: 7.8130380691714

Standard deviation: 1.02187149921

Type: Discrete

Width: 80

Format: Numeric

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Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	1. Removed by service provider to a treatment plant	261	1.3%
2	2. Removed by service provider and buried in a covered pit	33	0.2%
3	3. Removed by service provider do not know what they did with it	231	1.1%
4	4. Emptied by household and buried in a covered pit	97	0.5%
5	5. Emptied by household into an uncovered pit, open ground, water body, or other	23	0.1%
6	6. Other	27	0.1%
7	7. DO NOT KNOW	66	0.3%
8	8. Not applicable	19357	96.3%

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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