General Household Survey 2008
South Africa, 2008
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Reference ID
ZAF_2008_GHS_v01_M
Producer(s)
Statistics South Africa
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Metadata
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Jan 27, 2012
Last modified
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Type of health institution (q472medi)
Data file: GHS 2008 House_v1
Overview
Valid:
24333
Invalid:
0
Type:
Discrete
Decimal:
0
Start:
383
End:
384
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 | Hospital | 4892 |
20.1%
|
| 2 | Clinic | 13940 |
57.3%
|
| 3 | Other in public sector | 102 |
0.4%
|
| 4 | Hospital | 1028 |
4.2%
|
| 5 | Clinic | 451 |
1.9%
|
| 6 | Private doctor/specialist | 3614 |
14.9%
|
| 7 | Traditional healer | 87 |
0.4%
|
| 8 | Pharmacy/chemist | 90 |
0.4%
|
| 9 | Health facility provided by employer | 13 |
0.1%
|
| 10 | Other in private sector | 25 |
0.1%
|
| 11 | Don't know | 3 |
0%
|
| 99 | Unspecified | 88 |
0.4%
|
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.