World Health Survey 2003, Wave 0

South Africa, 2003

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Reference ID

ZAF_2003_WHS_v01_M

Producer(s)

World Health Organization (WHO)

Collection(s)

WHO’s Multi-Country Studies Programmes

Metadata

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Oct 17, 2013

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Oct 17, 2013

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total household expenditure (q0800)

Data file: WHS-SouthAfrica_F2

Overview

Valid: 2498

Invalid: 103

Minimum: 0

Maximum: 94000

Mean: 1573.944

Standard deviation: 3567.382

Type: Continuous

Decimal: 2

Start: 418

End: 425

Width: 8

Range: 10 - 7500

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Question pretext

Household Expenditure:
I would like to quickly ask you a few questions about your home. Remember that any information you provide will be kept confidential.
For all questions in this section report all values in local currency, whether paid in cash or in kind.

Literal question

In the last 4 weeks, how much did your household spend in total?

Categories

Value	Category
Sysmiss

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.

var_qstn_ivulnstr

Total spending should include the value of all goods and services consumed or used by the household. This would include things produced by the household for its own consumption (e.g. eggs from backyard chickens). It would exclude things purchased for use in a home business.

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