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Census 2001 - IPUMS Subset

South Africa, 2001
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ZAF_2001_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
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Statistics South Africa, IPUMS
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Urban-rural, 1996 classification (ZA2001A_URBAN)

Data file: ZAF2001_PHC-H-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 196
End: 196
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Categories
Value Category
1 Urban
2 Rural
8 Unknown
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
<svar a="all" v="ZA01A015 ZA01A016"><span class="em"><span class="ital">Urban formal</span></span><br /><span class="em">Urban formal areas</span> are structured and organised. Houses and flats are built on plots and these often have fences or walls around them. Township houses are usually on smaller plots and there are usually many of the same size and shape.<br /><br /><span class="em">Industrial areas</span>, shopping centres, office parks and <span class="em">commercial areas </span>also form part of urban formal areas. You will see larger and multi-storey buildings, often with car parks around them.<br /><br /><span class="em">Recreational areas</span> (golf courses, caravan parks, nature reserves, state forest areas, public entertainment areas, parks and botanic gardens) can contain large grassed areas; pools, paddling pools and other entertainment areas; and areas with dense trees.<br /><br /><span class="em">Hostels</span> are places where mine or factory workers live. They normally comprise several buildings set in ordered rows or blocks.<br /><br /><span class="em">Institutions</span> are prisons, hospitals, army areas, etc. On the map, some institutions look similar to hostels. If you recognise something of this kind on the photo, use the list in your 09 book to establish what kind of institution it is.<br /><br /><span class="pg">[P. 19]</span><br /><br /><span class="em"><span class="ital">Urban informal </span></span><br /><span class="em">Informal settlements</span> or so-called squatter camps are easy to recognise on a photo. The structures are small and crowded together.<br /><br /><span class="em"><span class="ital">Rural formal</span></span><br /><span class="em">Commercial farms</span> cover extensive areas, so any buildings on your map will be very small. Try and pick out owners' houses and labourers' houses. Look for cultivated fields, or grassed fields for animals. Fence lines can usually be seen.<br /><br /><span class="em">Small holdings</span> are smaller farms, closer to towns. They are usually used for market gardens or orchards.<br /><br /><span class="em">Commercial plantations</span> are planted in ordered rows in large fields and are easily recognised on an aerial photo.<br /><br /><span class="em"><span class="ital">Tribal areas</span></span><br /><span class="em">Tribal settlement</span> areas are usually villages that fall within a tribal area or tribal authority or administrative area. In some areas villages appear on the map as clusters of houses/huts with large areas of vacant grassland, fields, and patches of natural forest in between. In other areas huts or kraals are scattered throughout the area.<br /><br /><span class="em"><span class="ital">Other </span></span><br /><span class="em">Other features </span>such as transport routes (roads, freeways, railways and paths), public buildings (schools and churches), cemeteries, swimming pools, mine dumps, parking areas, natural forests (not plantations) will be present nearly everywhere.<br /></svar>

Description

Definition
This variable indicates the Census 1996 urban and rural classification.
Universe
South Africa 2001: All households

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Geography: O-Z Variables -- HOUSEHOLD IPUMS
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