General Household Survey 2015

South Africa, 2015

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ZAF_2015_GHS_v01_M

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Statistics South Africa

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DataFirst , University of Cape Town, South Africa

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Reason for not consulting a health worker (Q24bYNT)

Data file: ghs_2015_person_v1

Overview

Valid: 74449

Invalid: 0

Minimum: 1

Maximum: 99

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 125

End: 126

Width: 2

Range: 1 - 99

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Question pretext

If “No” in Q2.4a

Literal question

What is the main reason, why …… did not consult any health worker?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Too expensive	60	0.1%
2	Too far	31	0%
3	Not necessary/the problem was not serious enough	598	0.8%
4	Self medicated/treated myself	2051	2.8%
5	Fear of stigmatisation	7	0%
6	Queues too long	6	0%
7	Transportation problems	6	0%
8	Experienced difficulty getting a diagnosis before	1	0%
9	Do not know	5	0%
10	Other	19	0%
88	Not applicable	71327	95.8%
99	Unspecified	338	0.5%

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

The question is aimed to find out why people did not consult a health worker in the 30 days prior to the interview in spite of being ill. Provision has been made in Option 10 to specify other reasons not listed.

Description

Universe

This is applicable to all members of the household in the selected dwelling unit who were ill, but did not consult a health worker in the month prior to the interview.

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