General Household Survey 2015
South Africa, 2015
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Reference ID
ZAF_2015_GHS_v01_M
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Statistics South Africa
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Jan 25, 2017
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Medical help (Q71HFac)
Data file: ghs_2015_house_v1
Overview
Valid:
21601
Invalid:
0
Minimum:
1
Maximum:
99
Type:
Discrete
Decimal:
0
Start:
244
End:
245
Width:
2
Range:
1 - 99
Format:
Numeric
Questions and instructions
Literal question
If anyone in this household becomes ill and decides to seek medical help, where do they usually go first?
Categories
| Value | Category | Cases | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hospital | 1674 |
7.7%
|
| 2 | Clinic | 14044 |
65%
|
| 3 | Other | 115 |
0.5%
|
| 4 | Hospital | 430 |
2%
|
| 5 | Clinic | 332 |
1.5%
|
| 6 | Private doctor/specialist | 4632 |
21.4%
|
| 7 | Traditional healer | 100 |
0.5%
|
| 8 | Spiritual healer's workplace/church | 35 |
0.2%
|
| 9 | Pharmacy/chemist | 83 |
0.4%
|
| 10 | Health facility provided by employer | 52 |
0.2%
|
| 11 | Alternative medicine, e.g. homoeopathist | 2 |
0%
|
| 12 | Other in private sector | 10 |
0%
|
| 13 | Do not know | 4 |
0%
|
| 99 | Unspecified | 88 |
0.4%
|
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.
Interviewer instructions
Enumerators are instructed that if more than one consultation took place, to consider the most recent one. The purpose of this question is to determine the place of consultation, and enumerators are instructed to establish whether the respondents used public or private sector facilities. The public sector includes government, provincial and community institutions, while private sector facilities include private clinics and hospitals, surgeons, sangomas, etc.
Description
Universe
All households in the selected dwelling units.