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Percentage of households with telephone (telephone in dwelling or cell phone)

DefinitionPercentage of households with a telephone in the dwelling or a cellular telephone.
ReferenceStatistics South Africa. Census in Brief. The people of South Africa population census 1996. Pretoria: Statistics South Africa; 1998.
Ref. URLhttp://www.statssa.gov.za/
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Indicator Type: -> Socio-Economic -> Household Facilities

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ECFSGPKZNLPMPNCNWWCZA
Percentage of households with telephone (telephone in dwelling or cell phone) [Definition]
1996 15.622.945.326.97.418.230.816.855.2[1] 28.6
1999 ---------[2] 33.7
2001 29.035.356.139.028.037.941.834.563.1[3] 42.4
2005 56.360.873.358.358.368.759.063.076.6[4] 64.6
2006 62.369.277.961.067.079.063.072.479.3[5] 70.2
2007 CS63.971.483.775.771.178.767.672.383.5[6] 76.2
EC: Eastern Cape  FS: Free State  GP: Gauteng  KZN: KwaZulu-Natal  LP: Limpopo  MP: Mpumalanga  NC: Northern Cape  NW: North West  WC: Western Cape  ZA: South Africa  

Notes and References

  1. Census 1996: Statistics South Africa. Census in Brief. The people of South Africa population census 1996. Pretoria: Statistics South Africa; 1998. http://www.statssa.gov.za/
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    Tables 3.10 and 3.11.
  2. StatsSA OHS: Statistics South Africa. Statistical Release PO317 October Household Survey. (various years) http://www.statssa.gov.za/ The 1999 OHS survey gathered detailed information on approximately 140 000 people living in 30 000 households. The survey covers a range of development and poverty indicators, including unemployment rates. The OHS of 1999 was drawn from a master sample, in which households from the same primary sampling until will be visited for a variety of surveys. This was the first time that a master sample was used to select households to be interviewed. Altogether 3000 EAs were drawn in 1999. The 1999 OHS, in common with the 1997 and 1998 OHS, was weighted to reflect estimates of the population size based on the population census of 1996.
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    Table 6.12 OHS 1999
  3. Census 2001: Statistics South Africa. Census 2001. Census in Brief. Pretoria: Statistics South Africa; 2003. http://www.statssa.gov.za/ There is a range of publications providing data from Census 2001, as well as an online database for downloading selected data.
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  4. StatsSA GHS 2005: General household survey July 2005. Statistical Release P0318. Pretoria: Statistics South Africa; 2006. http://www.statssa.gov.za/
    Local copy: http://www.hst.org.za/indicators/StatsSA/GHS_P0318July2005.pdf
    Downloaded 2006-06-19. Provincial calculations done from detailed data downloaded through Nesstar, August 2007.
  5. StatsSA GHS 2006: General household survey July 2006. Statistical Release P0318. Pretoria: Statistics South Africa; 2007. http://www.statssa.gov.za/
    Local copy: http://www.hst.org.za/indicators/StatsSA/GHS_P0318July2006.pdf
  6. Community Survey 2007: Statistics South Africa. Community Survey 2007. Various reports and online databases. http://www.statssa.gov.za
    Local copy: http://www.hst.org.za/indicators/StatsSA/CommSurvey/
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