General Household Survey 2018

South Africa, 2018

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ZAF_2018_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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Sep 09, 2019

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Data file: ghs-2019-person-1.0-stata11

Overview

Valid: 71137

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 125

End: 126

Width: 2

Range: 1 - 99

Format: Numeric

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Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Illness/injury	194	0.3%
2	Did not want to go to school	28	0%
3	Need to take care of someone else at home	5	0%
4		1	0%
5	Doing household chores	3	0%
6	The weather was bad	33	0%
7	No money for transport	6	0%
8	Lack of transport/problems with transport	8	0%
9	Writing exams	347	0.5%
10	Does not feel safe at school	6	0%
11	Other	227	0.3%
12	Do not know	18	0%
88	Not applicable	69845	98.2%
99	Unspecified	416	0.6%

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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