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General Household Survey 2006

South Africa, 2006
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ZAF_2006_GHS_v01_M
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Statistics South Africa
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DataFirst , University of Cape Town, South Africa
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Jan 27, 2012
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    Worker_v1

Type of health institution (q472medi)

Data file: GHS 2006 House_v1

Overview

Valid: 27999
Invalid: 0
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 368
End: 369
Width: 2
Range: 1 - 99
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
4.72 If anyone in this household gets ill and decides to seek medical help, where do they usually go first?
Categories
Value Category Cases
1 Public: Hospital 4763
17%
2 Public: Clinic 16878
60.3%
3 Other in public sector 96
0.3%
4 Private: Hospital 740
2.6%
5 Private: Clinic 442
1.6%
6 Private: doctor/specialist 4800
17.1%
7 Private: Traditional healer 92
0.3%
8 Private: Pharmacy/chemist 108
0.4%
9 Health facility provided by employer 13
0%
10 Other in private sector 10
0%
11 Don't know 3
0%
99 Unspecified 54
0.2%
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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