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Average household size
| Definition | Average number of people living in each household where household is defined as
a person, or a group of persons, who occupy a common dwelling (or part of it) for at least four days a week and who provide themselves jointly with food and other essentials for living. In other words, they live together as a unit. People who occupy the same dwelling, but who do not share food or other essentials, are enumerated as separate households. |
| Reference | Statistics South Africa. Census in Brief. The people of South Africa population census 1996. Pretoria: Statistics South Africa; 1998. |
| Ref. URL | http://www.statssa.gov.za/ |
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Indicator Type: -> Demographic [Related Resources]
| EC | FS | GP | KZN | LP | MP | NC | NW | WC | ZA |
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| 1990 | 5.2 | 3.9 | 3.5 | 5.7 | 5.2 | 4.6 | 4.3 | 3.8 | 3.9 | [1] 4.5 |
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| 1994 | 4.9 | 4.0 | 3.9 | 5.0 | 4.7 | 4.8 | 4.1 | 4.5 | 3.9 | [2] 4.5 |
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| 1996 | 4.6 | 4.1 | 3.7 | 5.0 | 4.9 | 4.6 | 4.3 | 4.6 | 3.9 | [3] 4.4 |
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| 2001 | 4.1 | 3.6 | 3.2 | 4.2 | 4.3 | 4.0 | 3.8 | 3.7 | 3.6 | [4] 3.8 |
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| 2007 CS | 4.1 | 3.5 | 3.3 | 4.6 | 4.3 | 3.9 | 4.0 | 3.7 | 3.8 | [5] 3.9 |
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| 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
- SAHR 1995 Ch1: Chimere-Dan O. Demographic Patterns in South Africa. In: Harrison D, Nielson M, editors. South African Health Review 1995. Durban: Health Systems Trust and Henry J. Kaiser Foundation; 1995. http://www.hst.org.za/publications/206
Local copy: http://www.hst.org.za/indicators/
Table 1.6
- 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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OHS 1994
- 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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- 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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Table 3.5, 3.6.
- 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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