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Demographic and Health Survey 2016 - IPUMS Subset

South Africa, 2016
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Reference ID
ZAF_2016_DHS_v01_M_v01_A_IPUMS
Producer(s)
National Department of Health (NDoH) [South Africa], Statistics South Africa (Stats SA), South African Medical Research Council (SAMRC), and ICF., Minnesota Population Center
Collection(s)
Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS)
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May 01, 2020
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Has difficulty speaking or is mute (H_DISMUTE)

Data file: ZAF2016-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 874
End: 875
Width: 2
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Categories
Value Category
00 No
10 Yes
11 Some difficulty speaking
12 A lot of difficulty speaking
13 Cannnot communicate at all
97 Don't know
98 Missing
99 NIU (not in universe)
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.

Description

Definition
DISMUTE indicates whether the household member has difficulty communicating when speaking and, if so, the degree of difficulty.

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
General disability Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
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