Dataset: South Africa Census, 1996: Household (10% Sample)

Variable hhsize: Household size

Literal Question

Number of persons in household: Males, Females & Total Number of persons

Descriptive Text

Derived from census records for persons.

Values Categories N NW
1 126917 1,480,218.9
 16.3%
2 142910 1,575,703.5
 17.4%
3 125189 1,327,176.1
 14.7%
4 130471 1,371,468.9
 15.1%
5 103627 1,074,051.8
 11.9%
6 73528 756,421.5
 8.3%
7 49977 513,272.3
 5.7%
8 33553 343,668.6
 3.8%
9 35214 360,662.1
 4.0%
10 7526 76,952.2
 0.8%
11 5946 60,777.5
 0.7%
12 3792 38,767.6
 0.4%
13 2627 26,821.2
 0.3%
14 1657 16,934.2
 0.2%
15 1112 11,381.5
 0.1%
16 807 8,255.0
 0.1%
17 530 5,414.5
 0.1%
18 495 5,059.8
 0.1%
19 143 1,464.3
 0.0%
20 125 1,276.5
 0.0%
21 86 879.3
 0.0%
22 63 646.0
 0.0%
23 42 428.7
 0.0%
24 36 368.0
 0.0%
25 25 254.9
 0.0%
26 13 133.3
 0.0%
27 20 204.6
 0.0%
28 6 61.0
 0.0%
29 9 91.7
 0.0%
31 5 51.7
 0.0%
32 5 51.3
 0.0%
33 1 10.2
 0.0%
34 2 20.4
 0.0%
35 3 30.6
 0.0%
36 4 41.7
 0.0%
38 1 10.6
 0.0%
40 1 10.2
 0.0%
41 2 21.3
 0.0%
42 1 12.8
 0.0%
43 1 10.4
 0.0%
44 1 10.2
 0.0%
45 1 10.3
 0.0%
46 2 21.3
 0.0%
50 2 20.2
 0.0%

Summary Statistics

Valid cases 846478 9059148.74
Missing cases 0 0.0
Minimum 1.0
Maximum 50.0
This variable is numeric

Universe

All households

Notes

Household size represents the count of persons in each household. The number of persons is derived from unweighted person counts.

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