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General Household Survey 2008

South Africa, 2008
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Reference ID
ZAF_2008_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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Sep 21, 2021
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    Worker_v1

Type of health institution (q123cons)

Data file: GHS 2008 Person_v1

Overview

Valid: 94744
Invalid: 0
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 102
End: 103
Width: 2
Range: 1 - 99
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
1.23 Where did the consultation take place?
Categories
Value Category Cases
1 Hospital 2143
2.3%
2 Clinic 4730
5%
3 Other 86
0.1%
4 Hospital 368
0.4%
5 Clinic 251
0.3%
6 Private doctor/specialist 2790
2.9%
7 Traditional healer 113
0.1%
8 Pharmacy/chemist 243
0.3%
9 Health facility provided by employer 12
0%
10 Alternative medicine, e.g. homeopath 3
0%
11 Other 11
0%
12 Do not know 2
0%
88 Not applicable 83759
88.4%
99 Unspecified 233
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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