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General Household Survey 2004

South Africa, 2004
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Reference ID
ZAF_2004_GHS_v01_M
Producer(s)
Statistics South Africa
Collection(s)
DataFirst , University of Cape Town, South Africa
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Jan 27, 2012
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May 05, 2014
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    House_v1
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    Worker_v1

Type of sector (q474medi)

Data file: GHS 2004 House_v1

Overview

Valid: 26190
Invalid: 0
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 360
End: 361
Width: 2
Range: 1 - 99
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
4.74 If anyone in this household gets ill and decides to seek medical help, where do they usually go first?
Categories
Value Category Cases
1 Hospital 6567
25.1%
2 Clinic 11986
45.8%
3 Other in public sector 60
0.2%
4 Hospital 1198
4.6%
5 Clinic 782
3%
6 Private doctor/specialist 5190
19.8%
7 Traditional healer 60
0.2%
8 Pharmacy/chemist 84
0.3%
9 Health facility provided by employer 203
0.8%
10 Alternative medicine, e.g. homeopathist 34
0.1%
11 Other in private sector 2
0%
99 Unspecified 24
0.1%
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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