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Housing Characteristics and Household Population • 17 Table 2.3 Household characteristics Percent distribution of households by housing characteristics, percentage using solid fuel for cooking, and percent distribution by frequency of smoking in the home, according to residence, Afghanistan 2015 Residence Housing characteristic Urban Rural Total Electricity Yes 92.5 64.2 71.5 No 7.5 35.8 28.5 Total 100.0 100.0 100.0 Flooring material Earthsand 3.7 2.2 2.6 Dung 0.2 0.1 0.1 Mud and hay 4.5 3.2 3.6 Wood planks 0.4 0.1 0.2 Parquet or polished wood 0.1 0.1 0.1 Ceramic tiles 1.8 0.1 0.5 Cement 15.4 1.2 4.8 Rugsmat 23.9 26.6 25.9 Carpet 48.0 58.6 55.9 Other 2.0 7.7 6.2 Total 100.0 100.0 100.0 Rooms used for sleeping One 20.0 15.2 16.4 Two 33.3 34.0 33.8 Three or more 44.0 49.6 48.2 Missing 2.6 1.2 1.6 Total 100.0 100.0 100.0 Place for cooking In the house 62.9 52.7 55.3 In a separate building 22.8 25.8 25.0 Outdoors 12.2 19.2 17.4 No food cooked in household 0.2 0.0 0.1 Other 1.9 2.2 2.1 Missing 0.0 0.1 0.1 Total 100.0 100.0 100.0 Cooking fuel Electricity 0.4 0.1 0.2 LPGnatural gasbiogas 83.1 15.1 32.6 Coallignite 0.1 0.6 0.5 Charcoal 0.3 0.9 0.7 Wood 9.3 28.0 23.2 Strawshrubsgrass 2.7 21.8 16.9 Agricultural crop 0.9 8.0 6.2 Animal dung 2.8 24.8 19.2 Other fuel 0.1 0.5 0.4 No food cooked in household 0.2 0.0 0.1 Missing 0.1 0.1 0.1 Total 100.0 100.0 100.0 Percentage using solid fuel for cooking 1 16.0 84.2 66.7 Frequency of smoking in the home Daily 19.3 19.2 19.2 Weekly 2.3 2.7 2.6 Monthly 0.5 0.6 0.6 Less than monthly 0.4 0.5 0.4 Never 77.5 76.9 77.1 Missing 0.0 0.1 0.1 Total 100.0 100.0 100.0 Number 6,269 18,126 24,395 LPG = Liquefied petroleum gas 1 Includes coallignite, charcoal, wood, strawshrubsgrass, agricultural crops, and animal dung 18 • Housing Characteristics and Household Population Table 2.4 Household possessions Percentage of households possessing various household effects, means of transportation, agricultural land, and livestockfarm animals by residence, Afghanistan 2015 Residence Possession Urban Rural Total Household effects Radio 45.1 48.1 47.3 Television 84.2 39.1 50.7 Mobile telephone 93.5 85.1 87.3 Non-mobile telephone 6.0 0.7 2.1 Refrigerator 50.7 8.4 19.2 Table 20.4 6.7 10.2 Chair 17.6 5.5 8.6 Sofa 9.2 2.0 3.9 Bed 30.9 15.6 19.5 Cupboard 54.5 29.1 35.6 Stand fan 58.4 18.2 28.5 Generator 19.0 8.8 11.4 Sewing machine 62.3 58.8 59.7 Computer 28.4 5.3 11.3 Means of transport Bicycle 40.3 26.4 30.0 Animal-drawn cart 1.3 7.4 5.8 Rickshaw 2.6 4.1 3.7 Motorcyclescooter 25.4 38.7 35.2 Cartrucktractor 16.4 13.2 14.0 Ownership of agricultural land 18.9 64.4 52.7 Ownership of farm animals 1 20.4 78.2 63.4 Number 6,269 18,126 24,395 1 Cattle, cows, bulls, horses, donkeys, goats, sheep, camels, ducks, or chickens Housing Characteristics and Household Population • 19 Table 2.5 Wealth quintiles Percent distribution of the de jure population by wealth quintiles, and the Gini coefficient, according to residence and province, Afghanistan 2015 Residenceprovince Wealth quintile Number of persons Gini coefficient Lowest Second Middle Fourth Highest Total Residence Urban 3.3 2.4 3.5 18.3 72.5 100.0 48,246 0.09 Rural 25.5 25.7 25.4 20.6 2.9 100.0 147,802 0.20 Province 1 Kabul 0.3 1.7 6.3 24.3 67.4 100.0 25,119 0.15 Kapisa 7.2 40.4 28.6 21.3 2.4 100.0 1,413 0.11 Parwan 13.3 26.1 36.1 17.7 6.7 100.0 4,557 0.26 Wardak 36.3 16.8 26.0 20.7 0.2 100.0 2,597 0.22 Logar 2.8 29.0 33.1 31.6 3.6 100.0 3,360 0.24 Nangarhar 1.1 10.8 22.9 39.0 26.3 100.0 5,896 0.23 Laghman 2.5 26.8 38.4 29.0 3.3 100.0 4,138 0.24 Panjsher 37.2 35.2 18.0 9.2 0.4 100.0 429 0.32 Baghlan 44.8