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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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Municipal water interruption in the past 3 months (ZA2016A_WATINTRP)

Data file: ZAF2016_PHC-H-H

Overview

Type: Discrete
Start: 216
End: 216
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>[4.36] In the past 3 months, has this household's municipal water supply been interrupted, even though the household paid their bill or bought sufficient pre-paid units?</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 if there was municipal water interruption in the past 3 months.
Universe
South Africa 2016: Households with water supplied by a municipality [discrepancies: none]

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