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Community Survey 2016 - IPUMS Subset

South Africa, 2016
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ZAF_2016_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
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Statistics South Africa, IPUMS
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Interruption in electricity (past 3 months) (ZA2016A_ELECTINT3M)

Data file: ZAF2016_PHC-H-H

Overview

Type: Discrete
Start: 228
End: 228
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
<span class="h2">4 Housing, household goods, services and crime and agricultural activities </span></p>

<p>Now, I am going to ask you some questions related to housing, household goods and services, crime and agricultural activities for this particular household.</p>

<p><span class="em">Electricity </span></p>

<p>[4.48] In the past three months, has this household's electricity been cut or interrupted without prior notification, even though the household paid the bill or bought pre-paid electricity?</p>
<div class="i1">[] 1 Yes<br />[] 2 No<br />[] 3 Do not know</div>
Categories
Value Category
1 Yes
2 No
3 Do not know
8 Unknown
9 NIU (not in universe)
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.

Description

Definition
This variable indicates whether there was an interruption in electricity in the past 3 months.
Universe
South Africa 2016: Households with in-house access to electricity [discrepancies: none]

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