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I noticed that just after posting; made an edit though. Since he's basing that on a row count, I'm not convinced it's necessarily unique IDs. To be fair, I do
by danielbarla 9y ago
I noticed that just after posting; made an edit though. Since he's basing that on a row count, I'm not convinced it's necessarily unique IDs. To be fair, I don't have the data, and he does.
We do like our autonumbers here in SA, so I wouldn't be surprised, despite the column name.
- SideburnsOfDoom 9y agoThe row count is puzzling, yes. There simply are not that many property-owning South African citizens. Some expats are known to be in that data. Then there are the rows marked deceased. But as others have pointed out, so many South African citizens (out of the circa 55 million) are poor and are not property owners. The 60 million rows of data hasn't been comprehensively accounted for yet.
- danielbarla 9y agoYepp. As far as I can tell, about 15 million of the population are in the 0 to 14 age group, so are highly unlikely to appear on a deed (not sure if it's even technically possible). The total number of properties in the country has got to be a fraction of that; the average number of people per home is apparently at 2.2 [1]. Stats SA seems to report in the region of 400 to 500K deaths per year, so if it was just down to deceased, it'd have to go back a fairly long way. [1] - https://www.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=582208ececa2424ab6e387d9cdcf01e3 https://www.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=582208ececa2424ab6e...