Quality of Life Survey 2023-2024
Round 7
South Africa, 2023 - 2024
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Reference ID
ZAF_2023_QoLS-R7_v01_M
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Gauteng City-Region Observatory
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May 05, 2025
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Q3.9 - What was your main reason for coming to live in this neighbourhood? (q3_9_reason_moved)
Data file: qols-2023-2024
Overview
Valid:
10092
Invalid:
3703
Type:
Discrete
Decimal:
0
Start:
361
End:
362
Width:
2
Range:
-3 - 14
Format:
Numeric
Questions and instructions
Categories
| Value | Category | Cases | |
|---|---|---|---|
| -3 | Fieldwork error | 0 |
0%
|
| -1 | Missing due to skip | 0 |
0%
|
| 1 | My family moved here when I was a child | 811 |
8%
|
| 2 | To access schools/education facilities | 403 |
4%
|
| 3 | Housing options are better than where I was before | 1379 |
13.7%
|
| 4 | It is safer than where I was before | 357 |
3.5%
|
| 5 | I wanted a place with better services (water, electricity, health care options) | 278 |
2.8%
|
| 6 | To be close to work | 1415 |
14%
|
| 7 | To look for work | 939 |
9.3%
|
| 8 | To start a business | 101 |
1%
|
| 9 | To join family or people I know (a partner/spouse, family members, friends, people from home town/area) | 1603 |
15.9%
|
| 10 | Couldn't go anywhere else | 127 |
1.3%
|
| 11 | Wanted to get my own place/independence | 1945 |
19.3%
|
| 12 | This area is more affordable than where I lived previously | 291 |
2.9%
|
| 13 | Difficult circumstances forced me to leave previous place (e.g. family challenges, eviction, lost job) | 443 |
4.4%
|
| 14 | Other (specify) | 0 |
0%
|
| Sysmiss | 3703 |
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.