General Household Survey 2016

South Africa, 2016

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ZAF_2016_GHS_v02_M

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Statistics South Africa

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DataFirst , University of Cape Town, South Africa

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Aug 14, 2017

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Data file: GHS 2016 Person v1.1 Stata11

Overview

Valid: 72602

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 149

End: 150

Width: 2

Range: 1 - 99

Format: Numeric

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Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Illness/injury	238	0.3%
2	Did not want to go to school	74	0.1%
3	Need to take care of someone else at home	6	0%
5	Doing household chores	4	0%
6	The weather was bad	24	0%
7	No money for transport	11	0%
8	Lack of transport/problems with transport	17	0%
9	Writing exams	246	0.3%
10	Does not feel safe at school	9	0%
11	Other	319	0.4%
12	Do not know	15	0%
88	Not applicable	71163	98%
99	Unspecified	476	0.7%

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.

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