General Household Survey 2010

South Africa, 2010

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ZAF_2010_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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Absent from school (Q127aabs)

Data file: GHS 2010_Person_v2_20111018

Overview

Valid: 95918

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 110

End: 110

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 9

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

1.27a Has …… been absent from school during the past school calendar week (Monday to Friday)?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Yes	7053	7.4%
2	No	16246	16.9%
3	Do not know	92	0.1%
4	Not applicable - school closed e.g. school holiday	4593	4.8%
8	Not applicable	67666	70.5%
9	Unspecified	268	0.3%

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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