General Household Survey 2015

South Africa, 2015

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ZAF_2015_GHS_v01_EN_M_v01_A_OCS

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Statistics South Africa

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Agricultural Surveys

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Sep 28, 2020

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Grains and food crops (Q83Grai)

Data file: ghs_2015_house_v1.1_20160608

Overview

Valid: 21601

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 289

End: 289

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 9

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

What kind of food production/agricultural activities is the household involved in?

Read all the options
1 = Livestock production (cattle, goats, sheep, pigs, etc)
2 = Poultry production (chickens, ducks, geese, guinea fowl, etc)
3 = Grains and food crops (maize, wheat, beans, sorghum, millet, groundnuts, etc)
4 = Industrial crops (e.g. tea, coffee, cotton, tobacco)
5 = Fruit and vegetable production
6 = Fodder grazing/pasture or grass for animals
7 = Forestry
8 = Fish farming/aquaculture
9 = Game farming
10 = Other

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Yes	2219	10.3%
2	No	1990	9.2%
8	Not applicable	17294	80.1%
9	Unspecified	98	0.5%

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.

Interviewer instructions

The purpose of this question is to determine the activities that take place on agricultural land. The instruction to the enumerator is to read each of the given categories and to have either 'Yes' or 'No' as an answer.

Description

Universe

All households in the selected dwelling units who have been involved the production of food or agricultural products during the past 12 months.

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