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Housing and Living conditions

Housing and Living conditions . Statistics Mauritius 4 July 2013. Houses with iron/tin walls and roofs on the decline . Owner occupied households or supplied free by parents / relatives are predominant. Few households are overcrowded (3 or more persons per room).

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Housing and Living conditions

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  1. Housing and Living conditions Statistics Mauritius 4 July 2013

  2. Houses with iron/tin walls and roofs on the decline

  3. Owner occupied households or supplied free by parents / relatives are predominant

  4. Few households are overcrowded (3 or more persons per room) In 2011, in Rodrigues only 3% of the total households were overcrowded . Proportion decreased from 5.4% in 2000 to 3% in 2012

  5. A general improvement in the living standards of Rodriguans from 2000 to 2011

  6. Housing and living conditions are less favourable in Rodrigues

  7. Availability of ICT devices

  8. Rodrigues with the Millennium Development Goals • Access to safe drinking water – 95% • Access to an improved water source – 96% • Owning a house – 94% • Using LPG as principal cooking fuel – 78% • Overcrowding – 3% • Access to ICT devices • Mobile phone – 84% • Fixed telephone – 45%

  9. Improvement in living standard from 2000 to 2011 • Improvement with respect to UN Millennium Development Indicators • Areas to improve housing and living conditions • Houses of iron/tin – 16% , 1900 • No flush toilet – 49%, 5400 • No running water in bathroom – 53%, 5800 • Woo as principal cooking fuel – 21%, 2300 • Overcrowding households – 3%, 400

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