General Household Survey 2025

South Africa, 2025

Get Microdata

Reference ID

zaf-statssa-ghs-2025-v1

DOI

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

Producer(s)

Statistics South Africa

Collections

South African Household Survey Data

Metadata

Documentation in PDF DDI/XML JSON

Created on

Jun 02, 2026

Last modified

Jun 16, 2026

Page views

18339

Downloads

295

Energy for lighting (eng_light)

Data file: ghs-2025-household-v1

Overview

Valid: 20095

Minimum: 1

Maximum: 11

Mean: 1.4249813386415

Standard deviation: 1.6544690416247

Type: Discrete

Width: 47

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	1. Electricity from mains	18257	90.9%
2	2. Other source of electricity (i.e. generator)	673	3.3%
3	3. Gas/LPG	22	0.1%
4	4. Paraffin	100	0.5%
7	7. Candles	629	3.1%
9	9. None	178	0.9%
10	10. NONE	35	0.2%
11	11. OTHER SOURCE OF ENERGY FOR LIGHTING	201	1%

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.

Back to Catalog