General Household Survey 2019

South Africa, 2019

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Reference ID

ZAF_2019_GHS_v01_M

Producer(s)

Statistics South Africa

Collection(s)

DataFirst , University of Cape Town, South Africa

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Documentation in PDF DDI/XML JSON

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Nov 19, 2021

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Nov 19, 2021

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Reason for not consulting a health worker (HLT_CONSULT_YNOT)

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

Overview

Valid: 68986

Invalid: -

Minimum: 1

Maximum: 88

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 121

End: 122

Width: 2

Range: 1 - 88

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Too expensive	56	0.1%
2	Too far	58	0.1%
3	Not necessary/the problem was not serious enough	884	1.3%
4	Self medicated/treated myself	2689	3.9%
5	Fear of stigmatisation	16	0%
6	Queues too long	32	0%
7	Transportation problems	9	0%
8	Experienced difficulty getting a diagnosis before	6	0%
9	Do not know	14	0%
10	Other	42	0.1%
88	Not applicable	65180	94.5%

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.

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