Water and Fire Household Surveys, 2019

These data are responses to surveys administer via structured interviews with households in three Cape Flats townships in 2019. The surveys focused on household experiences of and responses to episodes of flooding (Sweet Home Farm); water scarcity (Delft South); and runaway fires (Overcome Heights). Responses were recorded from approximately 200 adults representing their households in each site. Due to the Covid-19 restrictions in place at the time, survey data was collected via telephone/digital device interviews. All interviews were undertaken in the language of the respondent’s choice – generally isiXhosa, Afrikaans or English. Responses have been translated into English to produce this final data set. The survey was organised in two parts: Section One recorded mainly demographic and macro-level quantitative data. Section Two focused on respondent disaster and resilience experiences and included both quantitative and open-ended, qualitative responses.