Measuring Living Standards within Cities, Durban 2015
South Africa, 2015
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- Data files
- s1_hhroster
- s3_jobs
- s3_jobs_ISIC
- s4_food7days
- s4_nonfood12months
- s4_nonfood30days
- s5_documents
- s5_want
- s6_assets
- s6_assetsagri
- s6_property
- s8_residhistory
- s10_activities
- lsms_household
- landmark_dist
- residential_history_prepped
- tenure_docs
- tenure_docswide
- rr_s3_jobs
- rr_s3_jobs_ISIC
- rr_s10_activities
Main reasons for moving (s5_mvesrv)
Data file: lsms_household
Overview
Valid:
297
Invalid:
1164
Type:
Discrete
Decimal:
0
Start:
1458
End:
1460
Width:
3
Range:
-
Format:
Questions and instructions
Categories
| Value | Category |
|---|---|
| -96 | Other |
| 1 | To move closer to family/ friends / my own ethnic group |
| 2 | Change in family circumstance (e.g. birth / death / marriage / divorce / old enough to live independently) |
| 3 | Want to move to a larger house |
| 4 | Want to move to a house with better quality of construction / housing materials |
| 5 | Lower cost of housing |
| 6 | Buy or inherit a house / flat / land |
| 7 | To find work / better opportunities to find work |
| 8 | Closer to place of work / job |
| 9 | Closer to better schools |
| 10 | Closer to social / cultural life |
| 11 | Neighborhood better connected to roads |
| 12 | Neighborhood better connected to public transportation |
| 13 | Access to health facilities |
| 14 | Lower cost of living |
| 15 | Safer neighbourhood (less crime) |
| 16 | Nicer neighborhood (eg. cleaner / greener / quieter) |
| 17 | Better urban services (Electricity / water supply / sewerage / drainage / waste collection) |
| 18 | Allocation of RDP house or other state subsidy program |
| 19 | Being evicted |
| 20 | Floods or other natural disasters |
| Sysmiss |
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.