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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Members of a medical aid scheme (q357noma)

Data file: GHS 2009 House_v1

Overview

Valid: 25303

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 219

End: 219

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 9

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

3.57 Is someone in this household a member of a medical aid scheme? If no-one in this household is covered by a medical aid scheme, what is the main reason why not?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	At least one person belongs to a medical aid scheme	5097	20.1%
2	Do not have money for it	17892	70.7%
3	Do not want to spend money on it	581	2.3%
4	Do not want it/are not interested/do not think it is necessary	493	1.9%
5	Never/seldom become ill	172	0.7%
6	Do not know enough about it	605	2.4%
7	Other (specify)	58	0.2%
9	Unspecified	405	1.6%

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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