General Household Survey 2019

South Africa, 2019

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Reference ID

ZAF_2019_GHS_v01_M

Producer(s)

Statistics South Africa

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DataFirst , University of Cape Town, South Africa

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Nov 19, 2021

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Nov 19, 2021

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Main reason absent (EDU_ABS_RSN)

Data file: zaf-statssa-ghs-2019-person-v1

Overview

Valid: 68986

Invalid: -

Minimum: 1

Maximum: 88

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 106

End: 107

Width: 2

Range: 1 - 88

Format: Numeric

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Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Illness/injury	205	0.3%
2	Did not want to go to school	47	0.1%
3	Need to take care of someone else at home	10	0%
4	Employed/working outside the home	0	0%
5	Doing household chores	1	0%
6	The weather was bad	28	0%
7	No money for transport	6	0%
8	Lack of transport/problems with transport	7	0%
9	Writing exams	302	0.4%
10	Does not feel safe at school	1	0%
11	Other	344	0.5%
12	Do not know	12	0%
88	Not applicable	68023	98.6%

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.

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