Table 2.

Proportion and number of children in child-only households in South Africa, 2006.

Province	Children (%)a	95% CI	Illustrative # children	National share of children in COHs (%)
Western Cape	<0.01	(0.00–0.01)	43	0
Eastern Cape	0.98	(0.53–1.44)	31,328	26
Northern Cape	0.09	(0.00–0.19)b	306	0
Free State	0.41	(0.07–0.75)	4577	4
KwaZulu-Natal	0.97	(0.53–1.41)	37,079	30
North West	0.24	(0.05–0.42)	3393	3
Gauteng	0.00	(0.00–0.01)	119	0
Mpumalanga	0.38	(0.10–0.66)	5318	4
Limpopo	1.51	(0.93–2.09)	40,078	33
South Africa	0.67	(0.51–0.83)	122,241	100

Note: Own calculations based on General Household Survey 2006. COH – child-only household; CI – confidence interval; # – number.

^aPercentage of all children living in child-only households.

^bNormal approximation of binomial confidence interval resulted in a reported lower CI below 0 which was rounded up to 0.