General Household Survey 2010

South Africa, 2010

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Main dwelling (Q31MainD)

Data file: zaf-statssa-ghs-2010-house-v2.2

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Valid: 998

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Width: 2

Range: 1 - 12

Format: Numeric

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Value	Category	Cases
1	Dwelling/house or brick/concrete block structure on a separate stand or yard or on farm.	713	71.4%
2	Traditional dwelling/hut/structure made of traditional materials	2	0.2%
3	Flat or apartment in a block of flats	59	5.9%
4	Cluster house in complex	3	0.3%
5	Town house (semi-detached house in complex)	5	0.5%
6	Semi-detached house	57	5.7%
7	Dwelling/house/flat/room in backyard	11	1.1%
8	Informal dwelling/shack in backyard	60	6%
9	Informal dwelling/shack not in backyard; e.g. in an informal/squatter settlement or on farm	57	5.7%
10	Room/flatlet on a property or a larger dwelling servants' quarters/granny flat	22	2.2%
11	Caravan/tent	0	0%
12	Other	9	0.9%

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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