General Household Survey 2022

South Africa, 2022

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Type of main dwelling (hsg_maind)

Data file: ghs-2022-hhold-v1

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Valid: 1000

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 a farm	648	64.8%
2	Traditional dwelling/hut/structure made of traditional materials	0	0%
3	Flat or apartment in a block of flats	60	6%
4	Cluster house in complex	3	0.3%
5	Townhouse (semi-detached house in complex)	22	2.2%
6	Semi-detached house	102	10.2%
7	Dwelling/house/flat/room in backyard	7	0.7%
8	Informal dwelling/shack in backyard	34	3.4%
9	Informal dwelling/shack not in backyard, e.g. in an informal/squatter settlement or on a farm	109	10.9%
10	Room/flatlet on a property or a larger dwelling servants' quarters/granny flat	13	1.3%
11	Caravan/tent	0	0%
12	OTHER DWELLING TYPE	2	0.2%

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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