Table II.

Distribution of household types nationally and in the Agincourt DSS,^a South Africa.

	National data sets			Agincourt DSS
	1995 OHSb	1999 OHSb	2003 GHS	Actual			Projected
Type of household	Rurald	Rural	Rural	1996	1999	2003	Long run 1e	Long run 2f
Single person	0.108	0.160	0.203	0.057	0.062	0.051	0.052	0.053
Couple	0.058	0.053	0.053	0.021	0.024	0.020	0.020	0.021
Nuclear	0.302	0.181	0.146	0.255	0.240	0.221	0.204	0.206
Single parent	0.146	0.140	0.130	0.103	0.110	0.115	0.109	0.110
Three-generation linear	0.174	0.178	0.177	0.189	0.204	0.216	0.230	0.231
Three-generation skip	0.032	0.054	0.062	0.024	0.031	0.039	0.041	0.041
Multi-generation	0.017	0.005	0.003	0.043	0.043	0.064	0.058	0.058
Siblings only	0.014	0.022	0.027	0.006	0.009	0.009	na	na
Complex, related	0.136	0.186	0.181	0.256	0.266	0.253	0.275	0.274
Complex plus unrelated	0.015	0.021	0.019	0.009	0.005	0.007	0.006	0.006
Don't know				0.037	0.006	0.005	0.005
n	12,858	10,951	11,174	11,764	12,518	12,596

^aThe table contains column proportions. Estimates from the national data sets are weighted according to the official weights supplied by Statistics South Africa.

^bOctober Household Survey.

^cGeneral Household Survey.

^dIncludes the ‘Other-rural’ and ‘Tribal area’ sub-samples.

^e‘Long run 1’ gives the distribution of household types if household transition probabilities (see Table IV) are continuously reapplied until a steady state is reached.

^f‘Long run 2’ is obtained in the same way as the ‘long run 1’ distribution, except the ‘Don't know’ category is amalgamated with the ‘Complex, unknown’ category (see methods section).