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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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Access to electricity (ZA2016A_ELECTSRC)

Data file: ZAF2016_PHC-H-H

Overview

Type: Discrete
Start: 226
End: 226
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>[4.46] How does this household presently access electricity?</p>
<div class="i1">[] 1 In-house conventional meter<br />[] 2 In-house prepaid meter<br />[] 3 Connected to other source which household pays for [e.g. connected to neighbor's line and paying neighbor, paying landlord]<br />[] 4 Connected to other source which household is not paying for [e.g. connected to neighbor's line and not paying neighbor]<br />[] 5 Generator<br />[] 6 Solar home system<br />[] 7 Battery<br />[] 8 Other<br />[] 9 No access to electricity</div>
Categories
Value Category
1 In-house conventional meter
2 In-house prepaid meter
3 Connected to other source which household pays for
4 Connected to other source which household is not paying for
5 Generator
6 Solar home system
7 Battery
8 Other
9 No access to electricity
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 the type of access to electricity.
Universe
South Africa 2016: All households

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