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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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Rubbish removal (Q532Rub)

Data file: ghs_2015_house_v1.1_20160608

Overview

Valid: 21601
Invalid: 0
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 146
End: 147
Width: 2
Range: 1 - 99
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Categories
Value Category Cases
1 Removed by local authority/private company at least once a week 12160
56.3%
2 Removed by community members, contracted by the Municipality, less often than once a week 397
1.8%
3 Removed by community members, contracted by the Municipality, at least once a week 435
2%
4 Removed by community members, contracted by the Municipality, less often than once a week 120
0.6%
5 Removed by community members at least once a week 76
0.4%
6 Removed by community members less often than once a week 6
0%
7 Communal refuse dump 315
1.5%
8 Communal container/Central collection point 261
1.2%
9 Own refuse dump 6548
30.3%
10 Dump or leave rubbish anywhere 592
2.7%
11 Other (specify) 109
0.5%
99 Unspecified 582
2.7%
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 seeks to determine how refuse or rubbish from the dwelling unit is removed. If more than one method is used to remove refuse/rubbish, the instruction to the enumerator is to consider the one that offers better service.
The enumerator is ordered to skip to Q5.34a if Option 8, 9 or 10 is chosen
Question post text
08 = Own refuse dump - Go to Q5.34a
09 = Dump or leave rubbish anywhere - Go to Q5.34a
10 = Other (specify) - Go to Q5.34a

Description

Universe
All households in the selected dwelling units.

Imputation and derivation

Coder instructions
01 = Removed by local authority/private company at least once a week
02 = Removed by community members, contracted by the Municipality, less often than once a week
03 = Removed by community members, contracted by the Municipality, at least once a week
04 = Removed by community members, contracted by the Municipality, less often than once a week
05 = Removed by community members at least once a week
06 = Removed by community members less often than once a week
07 = Communal refuse dump/
08= Communal container/Central collection point
09 = Own refuse dump
10 = Dump or leave rubbish anywhere
11 = Other (specify)
99 = Unspecified
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