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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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Water interruption longer than 2 days (ZA2016A_INTRP2DAY)

Data file: ZAF2016_PHC-H-H

Overview

Type: Discrete
Start: 218
End: 218
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">Water</span></p>

<p>[4.38] Thinking about this/these interruption(s) in the municipal water supply, was any specific interruption longer than two consecutive days?</p>
<div class="i1">[] 1 Yes<br />[] 2 No<br />[] 3 Do not know</div>
Categories
Value Category
1 Yes
2 No
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 if water interruption longer than 2 days.
Universe
South Africa 2016: Households with water supplied by a municipality that experienced service interruptions in the past 3 months [discrepancies: type I none; type II trace]

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