General Household Survey 2005
South Africa, 2005
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Reference ID
ZAF_2005_GHS_v02_M
Producer(s)
Statistics South Africa
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Metadata
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Jan 27, 2012
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Medical help (q482medi)
Data file: GHS 2005 House_v1
Overview
Valid:
28102
Invalid:
0
Type:
Discrete
Decimal:
0
Start:
416
End:
417
Width:
2
Range:
1 - 99
Format:
Numeric
Questions and instructions
Literal question
4.82 If anyone in this household gets ill and decides to seek medical help, where do they usually go first?
Categories
| Value | Category | Cases | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hospital | 5837 |
20.8%
|
| 2 | Clinic | 15115 |
53.8%
|
| 3 | Other in public sector | 64 |
0.2%
|
| 4 | Hospital | 845 |
3%
|
| 5 | Clinic | 570 |
2%
|
| 6 | Private doctor/specialist | 5330 |
19%
|
| 7 | Traditional healer | 138 |
0.5%
|
| 8 | Pharmacy/chemist | 91 |
0.3%
|
| 9 | Health facility provided by employer | 63 |
0.2%
|
| 10 | Other in private sector | 19 |
0.1%
|
| 11 | Don't know | 3 |
0%
|
| 99 | Unspecified | 27 |
0.1%
|
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.