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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Treatment of drinking water (Q515Trea)

Data file: ghs_2015_house_v1.1_20160608

Overview

Valid: 21601

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 92

End: 92

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 9

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

Do household members treat the water used for drinking?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Yes, always	912	4.2%
2	Yes, sometimes	1046	4.8%
3	No, never	19399	89.8%
9	Unspecified	244	1.1%

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.

Interviewer instructions

This question is asked to all households to establish whether they treat water used for drinking. An example of treating water is boiling it, using chemicals, e.g. bleach, filtering, etc. It must be noted that this question only concerns water that is used for drinking.

Description

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ll households in the selected dwelling units.

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