National Income Dynamics Study 2008, Wave 1

South Africa, 2008

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ZAF_2008_NIDS-W1_v08_M

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Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit

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DataFirst , University of Cape Town, South Africa

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Jan 27, 2012

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a25 - Why a proxy? (w1_p_resprox)

Data file: Proxy_W1_Anon_V6.1

Overview

Valid: 1750

Invalid: 0

Minimum: -3

Maximum: 12

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 39

End: 40

Width: 2

Range: -3 - 12

Format: Numeric

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Categories

Value	Category	Cases
-3	Missing	290	16.6%
1	In an institution (e.g. hospital prison)	58	3.3%
2	Studying away from home	84	4.8%
3	On holiday	91	5.2%
4	Away on business/for work	342	19.5%
5	Unable to be contacted	267	15.3%
6	Permanently too unwell or disabled	168	9.6%
7	Temporarily unwell	64	3.7%
8	Too old	27	1.5%
9	Deaf or has speech problems	34	1.9%
10	Has language problems	3	0.2%
11	Refused but allowed a proxy	113	6.5%
12	Temporarily away from home for other reasons	209	11.9%

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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