General Household Survey 2015

South Africa, 2015

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Reference ID

ZAF_2015_GHS_v01_EN_M_v01_A_OCS

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Statistics South Africa

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Sep 28, 2020

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Making improvements to the house (Q510cHomeImpr)

Data file: ghs_2015_house_v1.1_20160608

Overview

Valid: 21601

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 80

End: 80

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 9

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

Has the household ever used the RDP or state-subsidised
dwellings as security to obtain a loan or credit for:

1 = Establishing a business
2 = Covering health costs
3 = Covering educational expenses
4 = Making improvements to the house
5 = Buying another property or house
6 = Other

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Yes	104	0.5%
2	No	3483	16.1%
3	Do not know	0	0%
8	Not applicable	17808	82.4%
9	Unspecified	206	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.

Description

Universe

All households in selected dwelling units who indicated that they live in an RDP or state subsidised dwelling.

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