General household survey - Statistics South Africa

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Figure 19: Percentage of households living in informal dwellings per province, 2011
The percentage of dwelling units with six rooms or more per population group is depicted in Figure 20. The
number of rooms includes all rooms, including toilets and bathrooms. This question reflects the standard of
living of the population and can be tied to other characteristics such as education. White (85%) and
Indian/Asian (71,1%) households were much more likely to live in dwellings with six or more rooms than
coloured (42,3%) or black African (31%) households. Black African-headed households inhabited dwellings
with an average of 5,3 rooms, compared to 5,7 rooms for coloured, 7,5 for Indian/Asian and 8,8 for whiteheaded
households.
Figure 20: Percentage of dwelling units with six rooms or more by population group of the
household head, 2011
8.2 State subsidised housing
The GHS 2011 included a number of questions aimed at establishing the extent to which subsidised
housing provided by the state is used, the quality of these dwellings as well as the use of waiting lists. At
the time of the survey, 15,3% of South African households were living in an ‘RDP’ or state-subsidised
dwelling while a further 13,3% had at least one household member on a demand database/waiting list for
state-subsidised housing.
General Household Survey, July 2011