General Household Survey - Statistics South Africa

1 STATISTICAL RELEASE. P0318. General Household Survey 2018 . Embargoed until: 28 May 2019. 11:00. ENQUIRIES: FORTHCOMING ISSUE: EXPECTED RELEASE DATE. User Information Services GHS 2019 May 2020. Tel.: (012) 310 8600. T +27 12 310 8911. F +27 12 310 8500. Private Bag X44, Pretoria, 0001, South Africa ISIbalo House, Koch Street, Salvokop, Pretoria, 0002. Statistics South Africa i P0318. CONTENTS. LIST OF FIGURES .. iv LIST OF TABLES .. vi Abbreviations .. vii Summary and Key Findings .. viii 1 Introduction .. 1. Purpose .. 1. Survey scope .. 1. 2 Basic population Statistics .. 2. Population 2. Household estimates .. 3. 3 Household 4. Household composition and living arrangements .. 4. Living arrangements of children .. 7. Languages spoken inside and outside the 8. 4 Education .. 10. Educational profile of learners aged 0 4 years .. 10. General attendance of individuals aged 5 years and older at educational institutions.

2 11. school attendance .. 16. Higher education institution 18. Educational attainment of persons aged 20 years and older .. 21. 5 Health .. 24. Health care provision and 24. Medical aid coverage .. 26. Teenage pregnancy .. 28. 6 Disability .. 29. 7 Social security 30. 8 Housing .. 32. Housing types and ownership .. 32. State-subsidised housing .. 34. 9 Energy .. 36. 10 Drinking water .. 41. 11 Sanitation .. 48. 12 Refuse removal and recycling .. 53. 13 Telecommunications .. 56. 14 Transport .. 59. 15 Environmental trends .. 60. 16 Individual and Household assets, and sources of income .. 62. Individual assets .. 62. Household assets .. 63. Household sources of income .. 64. 17 Access to food .. 66. 18 Agriculture .. 68. 19 Technical notes .. 70. Methodology and fieldwork .. 70. Questionnaire .. 70. Response rates .. 71. Data revisions .. 72. Limitations of the study .. 72. Sample design .. 73. Allocating sample sizes to strata.

3 74. Weighting .. 76. Sampling and the interpretation of the data .. 77. Comparability with previous surveys .. 77. Editing and imputation .. 77. Measures of precision for selected variables of the General Household Survey ..79. Definitions of terms .. 86. Classifications .. 87. General Household Survey , 2018 . Statistics South Africa i P0318. ADDENDUM TABLES. 1. Population .. 88. By province, population group and sex, 2018 .. 88. By age group, population group and sex, 2018 .. 89. 2. Education .. 90. Population aged 20 years and older, by highest level of education and province, 2018 ..90. Population aged 20 years and older, by highest level of education, population group and sex, 2018 .. 92. Population aged 20 years and older, by highest level of education, age group and sex, 2018 ..94. Population aged 15 years and older with a level of education lower than Grade 7, by literacy skills and province, 2018 .

4 96. Population aged 15 years and older with a level of education lower than Grade 7, who have some, a lot of difficulty or are unable to do basic literacy activities by sex and province, 2018 ..98. Population aged 15 years and older with a level of education lower than Grade 7, who have some, a lot of difficulty or are unable to do basic literacy activities, by population group and sex, 2018 .. 100. Population aged 15 years and older with a level of education lower than Grade 7, by literacy skills and age group, 2018 .. 102. 3. Attendance at an educational institution .. 104. Population attending and not attending an educational institution by population group and age group, 2018 .. 104. Population attending an educational institution, by type of institution, age group and sex, 2018 ..106. Population aged 5 years and older attending an educational institution, by type of institution and province, 2018 .

5 107. Population aged 5 years and older attending an educational institution, by type of institution, population group and sex, 2018 .. 108. Population aged 5 years and older attending an educational institution, by annual tuition fee, population group and sex, 2018 .. 109. Population aged 5 years and older attending an educational institution, by annual tuition fee and type of institution, 2018 .. 110. Population aged 5 years and older attending an educational institution that benefited from reductions or partial bursaries, by type of institution, sex and province, 2018 ..111. Population aged 5 years and older attending an educational institution, by the kind of problems they experience at the institution, and by province, 113. Population aged 5 years and older currently attending school by grade and by province, 2018 ..114. Population aged 0 4 years attending a day care centre, cr che, early childhood development centre (ECD) playgroup, nursery school or pre-primary school , by whether they attend or not, and by province, 115.

6 Population aged 0 4 years attending a day care centre, cr che, early childhood development centre (ECD) playgroup, nursery school or pre-primary school , by whether they attend these institutions, and by population group and sex, 2018 .. 116. 4. Medical aid coverage .. 117. Medical aid coverage, by province and population group, 2018 ..117. Medical aid coverage, by population group and sex, 2018 .. 119. Medical aid coverage, by age group, 2018 .. 120. 5. Health .. 121. General health perception, by province, 2018 .. 121. People who were ill in the month prior to the interview and who consulted a health worker, by province, 2018 .. 122. People who were ill in the month prior to the interview and whether they consulted a health worker, by population group and sex, 2018 .. 123. The Household 's normal place of consultation by province, 2018 ..124. The Household 's normal place of consultation and whether at least one member is covered by medical aid, 2018 .

7 125. The respondent's level of satisfaction with the service received during their most recent visit, by kind of health facility used, 2018 .. 126. The respondent's level of satisfaction with the service received during their most recent visit to a health facility, by population group and sex, 127. General Household Survey , 2018 . Statistics South Africa ii P0318. People who were sick/injured and who did not consult a health worker in the month prior to the interview, by the reason for not consulting, and by population group and sex, 2018 ..128. Population suffering from chronic health conditions as diagnosed by a medical practitioner or nurse, by sex and province, 2018 .. 129. 6. Disabilities .. 132. Population aged 5 years and older that have some difficulty or are unable to do basic activities, by province, 132. Population aged 5 years and older that have some difficulty, a lot of difficulty or are unable to do basic activities, by population group and sex, 2018 .

8 134. Population aged 5 years and older that are using assistive devices, by sex and province, 7. Social welfare .. 137. Population that received social grants, relief assistance or social relief, by population group, sex and province, 2018 .. 137. 8. Dwellings and services .. 138. Type of dwelling, by number of rooms in the dwelling .. 138. All population groups, 2018 .. 138. Black African population group, 2018 .. 139. Other** population groups, 2018 .. 140. Type of dwelling of households, by province, 2018 .. 141. Type of dwelling of households, by main source of water, 2018 ..142. Households by type of dwelling, by tenure status, 2018 .. 144. Tenure status of households, by province, 2018 .. 145. Type of ownership of the dwellings of households, by population group and sex of the Household head, 2018 .. 146. Type of dwelling of households, by main source of energy .. 147. For cooking, 2018 .. 147.

9 For heating, 2018 .. 148. For lighting, 2018 .. 149. 9. Water services .. 150. Main source of water for households, by province, 2018 .. 150. Households by main source of water, by population group of the Household head, 2018 ..151. Households whose main source of water was supplied by the local municipality, by province, 2018 .. 152. Households whose main source of water was supplied by the local municipality, by population group and sex of the Household head, 2018 .. 153. Households without water in the dwelling or on site, by the distance Household members have to travel to reach the nearest water source, and population group of the Household head, 2018 ..154. Households' perceptions of water quality, per province, 2018 ..155. 10. Communication .. 156. Households' ownership of a cellular phone, by population group and sex of the Household head, 2018 .. 156. Households' ownership of a cellular phone, by province, 2018 .

10 157. Households with connection of a landline phone, by population group and sex of the Household head, 2018 .. 158. Households' ownership of a landline phone, by province, 2018 ..159. 11. Source of 160. Electricity connection to the mains, by population group, sex of the Household head and province, 2018 .. 160. Source of 161. Main source of energy used by households, by 161. For cooking, 2018 .. 161. For heating, 2018 .. 162. For lighting, 2018 .. 163. Main source of energy used by households, by population group of the Household head ..164. For cooking, 2018 .. 164. For heating, 2018 .. 165. For lighting, 2018 .. 166. 12. Sanitation .. 167. Sanitation facility used by households, by province, 2018 .. 167. Sanitation facility used by households, by population group of the Household head, 2018 ..168. General Household Survey , 2018 . Statistics South Africa iii P0318. Sanitation facility used by households, by type of dwelling, 2018 .