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General Household Survey 2009

South Africa, 2009
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ZAF_2009_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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Interview language (q423lan)

Data file: GHS 2009 House_v1

Overview

Valid: 25303
Invalid: 0
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 286
End: 287
Width: 2
Range: 1 - 99
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
4.23 In what language was the main part of the interview conducted?
Categories
Value Category Cases
1 Afrikaans 2434
9.6%
2 English 3121
12.3%
3 Isindebele/South ndebele/North ndebele 258
1%
4 Isixhosa/Xhosa 3253
12.9%
5 Isizulu/Zulu 5592
22.1%
6 Sepedi/Northern sotho 2331
9.2%
7 Sesotho/Southern sotho/Sotho 2554
10.1%
8 Setswana/Tswana 3421
13.5%
9 Siswati/Swazi 764
3%
10 Tshivenda/Venda 549
2.2%
11 Xitsonga/Tsonga 688
2.7%
12 Other 3
0%
99 Unspecified 335
1.3%
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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