General household survey - Statistics South Africa

Statistics South Africa ii P0318
Contents
List of figures ................................................................................................................................................................ iv
List of tables vi
1. Introduction and methodology ..................................................................................................................... 1
1.1 Background ...................................................................................................................................................... 1
1.2 Target population ............................................................................................................................................. 1
2. Summary and key findings ........................................................................................................................... 1
3. Basic population statistics ........................................................................................................................... 5
4. Education ........................................................................................................................................................ 5
4.1 Introduction ...................................................................................................................................................... 6
4.2 Educational profile of learners aged 0–4 years ............................................................................................... 6
4.3 General attendance of individuals aged 5 years and older at educational institutions.................................... 7
4.4 School attendance ......................................................................................................................................... 10
4.5 Higher education institution attendance ........................................................................................................ 11
4.6 Educational attainment of persons 20 years and older ................................................................................. 12
5. Health ............................................................................................................................................................ 15
5.1 Health-care provision and quality .................................................................................................................. 15
5.2 Medical aid coverage ..................................................................................................................................... 17
5.3 Teenage pregnancy ....................................................................................................................................... 18
6. Disability ....................................................................................................................................................... 19
7. Social security services .............................................................................................................................. 19
8. Housing ......................................................................................................................................................... 21
8.1 Housing types and ownership ........................................................................................................................ 21
8.2 State subsidised housing ............................................................................................................................... 22
9. Household sources of energy .................................................................................................................... 25
10. Water access and use ................................................................................................................................. 27
11. Sanitation and refuse removal ................................................................................................................... 32
12. Telecommunications ................................................................................................................................... 34
13. Transport ...................................................................................................................................................... 36
14. Environmental trends .................................................................................................................................. 38
15. Household sources of income ................................................................................................................... 38
16. Access to food ............................................................................................................................................. 40
17. Agriculture .................................................................................................................................................... 41
18. Technical notes ............................................................................................................................................ 43
18.1 Methodology and fieldwork ............................................................................................................................ 43
18.2 The questionnaire .......................................................................................................................................... 43
18.3 Response rates .............................................................................................................................................. 44
18.4 Data revisions ................................................................................................................................................ 44
18.5 Limitations of the study .................................................................................................................................. 44
18.6 Sample design ............................................................................................................................................... 45
18.7 Allocating sample sizes to strata ................................................................................................................... 45
18.8 Weighting ...................................................................................................................................................... 47
18.9 Sampling and the interpretation of the data ................................................................................................... 48
18.10 Comparability with previous surveys ............................................................................................................. 48
18.11 Editing and imputation ................................................................................................................................... 49
18.12 Definitions of terms ........................................................................................................................................ 50
18.13 Classifications ................................................................................................................................................ 51
General Household Survey, July 2011