General Household Survey 2015

South Africa, 2015

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Reference ID

ZAF_2015_GHS_v01_M

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Statistics South Africa

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Jun 26, 2017

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Causes of piped water interruption (Q519bCaus)

Data file: ghs_2015_house_v1.1_20160608

Overview

Valid: 21601

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 99

End: 100

Width: 2

Range: -

Format:

Questions and instructions

Question pretext

Ask if ‘yes’ in 5.19a

Literal question

If Yes, what was the main reason for the interruption?

Categories

Value	Category
1	General maintenance
2	Water only delivered at fixed times
3	Non-payment for services (cut off)
4	Other (specify)
5	Do not know
88	Not applicable
98	Unspecified
99

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 applicable only to households using piped water, regardless of whether it is in the dwelling or communal source. This question seeks to determine the cause of interruptions. For any other reason that is not outlined in the given categories, provision is made in Code 9.

Description

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Only households whose main source of water is supplied by the local municipality.

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