2024 Zambia Demographic and Health Survey
Seventh Edition
Zambia, 2024
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Reference ID
ZMB-ZSA-ZDHS-2024-V1.0
Producer(s)
Zambia Statistics Agency
Metadata
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Jan 16, 2026
Last modified
Feb 26, 2026
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main wall material (v128)
Data file: ZMBR81FL
Overview
Valid:
35610
Invalid:
0
Type:
Discrete
Decimal:
0
Width:
8
Range:
10 - 97
Format:
Numeric
Questions and instructions
Categories
| Value | Category | Cases | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | natural | 0 |
0%
|
| 11 | no walls | 23 |
0.1%
|
| 12 | cane/palm/trunks | 715 |
2%
|
| 13 | dirt (mud) | 3072 |
8.6%
|
| 20 | rudimentary | 0 |
0%
|
| 21 | bamboo with mud | 1188 |
3.3%
|
| 22 | stone with mud | 47 |
0.1%
|
| 23 | uncovered adobe | 144 |
0.4%
|
| 24 | plywood | 103 |
0.3%
|
| 25 | cardboard | 37 |
0.1%
|
| 26 | reused wood | 9 |
0%
|
| 27 | mudbrick | 7997 |
22.5%
|
| 30 | finished | 0 |
0%
|
| 31 | cement | 4540 |
12.7%
|
| 32 | stone with lime/cement | 106 |
0.3%
|
| 33 | burned bricks | 13318 |
37.4%
|
| 34 | cement blocks | 3508 |
9.9%
|
| 35 | covered adobe | 73 |
0.2%
|
| 36 | wood planks/shingles | 108 |
0.3%
|
| 96 | other | 179 |
0.5%
|
| 97 | not a de jure resident | 443 |
1.2%
|
Warning: these figures indicate the number of cases found in the data file. They cannot be interpreted as summary statistics of the population of interest.