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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Current status of pregnancy (Q27bSTA)

Data file: ghs_2015_person_v1

Overview

Valid: 74449

Invalid: 0

Minimum: 1

Maximum: 9

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 174

End: 174

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 9

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Question pretext

If “Yes” in Q2.7a

Literal question

What is the current statusof this pregnancy?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Currently still pregnant	436	0.6%
2	The child has been born alive	1296	1.7%
3	The child died in the womb or during childbirth after the 7th month of pregnancy (stillbirth)	34	0%
4	The child died in the womb or the pregnancy ended before the 7th month of pregnancy (spontaneous abortion/miscarriage)	30	0%
5	The pregnancy was ended by choice before the child was born (termination of pregnancy/abortion by choice)	4	0%
8	Not applicable	55841	75%
9	Unspecified	16808	22.6%

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

This question measures disability and focuses on seven areas of functioning. Each option or area of functioning has to be read out to the respondent.
The respondent has to rate each individual in terms of the degree to which someone has difficulties doing the particular activity.
If someone has no difficulty for all the listed options they have to skip to Q2.9.

Description

Universe

This is applicable to all members aged five years and older in the household

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