We asked questions related to socio-economic and demographic information, including:

• Age, gender and general health and wellbeing of each household member
• Current employment, level of education, migration, and mobility
• Home ownership or rental status, household income and expenditure, access to services and use of public amenities

The survey is POPIA compliant, and any personal information collected is treated as confidential. All information gathered is used only for statistical and research purposes. Participation is voluntary and any participant has the right of access to and the right to rectify or request the removal of the information collected.

Who was interviewed?

Households from across the City of Cape Town were selected randomly to provide a spatially representative sample of each suburb and the city as a whole. Selected households came from a variety of dwelling types including formal housing (freestanding and semi-detached houses, apartments/flats, townhouses, security complexes, Residential Development Programme (RDP)/Breaking New Ground (BNG) homes, etc.), informal settlements, and formal and informal backyard structures.