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 www.statssa.gov.za [email protected] 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 1.1 Purpose ................................................................................................................................................. 1 1.2 Survey scope ........................................................................................................................................ 1 2 Basic population statistics ..................................................................................................................... 2 2.1 Population estimates............................................................................................................................. 2 2.2 Household estimates ............................................................................................................................ 3 3 Household composition......................................................................................................................... 4 3.1 Household composition and living arrangements ................................................................................. 4 3.2 Living arrangements of children ............................................................................................................ 7 3.3 Languages spoken inside and outside the household .......................................................................... 8 4 Education ............................................................................................................................................ 10 4.1 Educational profile of learners aged 0–4 years .................................................................................. 10 4.2 General attendance of individuals aged 5 years and older at educational institutions ....................... 11 4.3 School attendance .............................................................................................................................. 16 4.4 Higher education institution attendance.............................................................................................. 18 4.5 Educational attainment of persons aged 20 years and older ............................................................. 21 5 Health .................................................................................................................................................. 24 5.1 Health care provision and quality................................ ........................................................................ 24 5.2 Medical aid coverage .......................................................................................................................... 26 5.3 Teenage pregnancy ............................................................................................................................ 28 6 Disability .............................................................................................................................................. 29 7 Social security services....................................................................................................................... 30 8 Housing ............................................................................................................................................... 32 8.1 Housing types and ownership ............................................................................................................. 32 8.2 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 16.1 Individual assets ................................................................................................................................. 62 16.2 Household assets ............................................................................................................................... 63 16.3 Household sources of income ............................................................................................................ 64 17 Access to food .................................................................................................................................... 66 18 Agriculture ........................................................................................................................................... 68 19 Technical notes ................................................................................................................................... 70 19.1 Methodology and fieldwork ................................................................................................................. 70 19.2 Questionnaire ...................................................................................................................................... 70 19.3 Response rates ................................................................................................................................... 71 19.4 Data revisions ..................................................................................................................................... 72 19.5 Limitations of the study ....................................................................................................................... 72 19.6 Sample design .................................................................................................................................... 73 19.7 Allocating sample sizes to strata ........................................................................................................ 74 19.8 Weighting ........................................................................................................................................... 76 19.9 Sampling and the interpretation of the data ........................................................................................ 77 19.10 Comparability with previous surveys .................................................................................................. 77 19.11 Editing and imputation ........................................................................................................................ 77 19.12 Measures of precision for selected variables of the General Household Survey ............................... 79 19.13 Definitions of terms ............................................................................................................................. 86 19.14 Classifications ..................................................................................................................................... 87 General Household Survey, 2018 STATISTICS SOUTH AFRICA i P0318 ADDENDUM TABLES 1. Population ........................................................................................................................................... 88 1.1 By province, population group and sex, 2018 .................................................................................... 88 1.2 By age group, population group and sex, 2018 .................................................................................. 89 2. Education ...........................................................................................................................................