Variable dwelling: Type of dwelling

Literal Question

Which type of dwelling does this household occupy?

Descriptive Text

The two principles led to locational and settlement types as follows: Urban - Eas within municipal or local authority boundaries. These can be further classified as : - Ordinary town or city area as well as vacant areas. Various formal structures can be found (e.g. hoses, blocks of flats and businesses). - Area with mainly informal dwellings (so-called 'squatter areas'). - Area with mainly hostels, e.g. mine, factory and municipal hostels. - Area with mainly institutions e.g. prisons and hospitals. Rural - EAs with population concentrations adjacent to a municipal border (an EA must have one common boundary with municipal border) and EAs situated in rural areas (not sharing a common boundary with a proclaimed urban municipal area). These can be further classified as: - Semi-town (i.e., a town without a local authority) with predominantly formal dwellings. - Area with mainly informal dwellings. Area with mainly institutions. - Semi-town (i.e. a town without a local authority) with predominantly formal dwellings such as mining and industrial towns where housing for employees is provided by employers. - Village/ settlement without a local authority and which is not situated within a tribal area and with formal and semi-formal dwellings such as houses, huts and rondavels. - Tribal authority area with villages. -Area with mainly informal dwellings. -Area with mainly hostels. - Area with mainly institutions. - Area with farms, agricultural holdings, holiday resorts, agricultural schools and colleges. - Tribal authority areas outside of villages.

Values	Categories	N	NW
1	House or brick structure on separate sta	406396	4,332,958.4	47.8%
2	Traditional dwelling	156159	1,641,691.6	18.1%
3	Flat in block of flats	41749	458,781.6	5.1%
4	Town/cluster/semi-detached house	35536	381,799.8	4.2%
5	Unit in retirement village	3582	40,657.4	0.4%
6	House/flat/room in backyard	43675	481,586.5	5.3%
7	Informal dwelling/shack in backyard	37303	403,735.5	4.5%
8	Informal dwelling/shack elsewhere	97612	1,049,128.0	11.6%
9	Room/flatlet on shared property	12715	140,723.2	1.6%
10	Caravan/tent	1516	17,043.6	0.2%
11	None/homeless	216	2,353.1	0.0%
12	Other	1462	15,816.4	0.2%
99	Unspecified/Dummy	8557	92,873.6	1.0%

Summary Statistics

Valid cases	846478	9059148.74
Missing cases	0	0.0
Minimum	1.0
Maximum	99.0
This variable is numeric

Universe

All households

Notes

Each household was asked for the type of dwelling in which they lived. An instruction was included on the questionnaire to the effect that where a household lived in more than one dwelling, they should indicate the main type. The full set of response options (which can be summarised for output purposes) is: 1) House or brick structure on a seperate stand or yard; 2) Traditional dwelling/hut/structure made of traditional materials; 3) Flat in block of flats; 4) Town/cluster/semi-detached house (simplex, duplex or triplex); 5)Unit in a retirement village; 6) House/flat/room, in back yard; 7)Informal dwelling/shck, in back yard; 8) Informal dwelling/shack, not in back yard; 9) Room/flatlet not in back yard but on a shared property; 10) Caravan/tent; 11) None/homeless; 12) Other, specify....

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