General Household Survey 2009

South Africa, 2009

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Reference ID

ZAF_2009_GHS_v01_M

Producer(s)

Statistics South Africa

Collection(s)

DataFirst , University of Cape Town, South Africa

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Care provision (q129acre)

Data file: GHS 2009 Person_v1

Overview

Valid: 94263

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 115

End: 115

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 9

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

1.29a Does anyone in this household personally provide care for at least two hours per day to someone in the household who –owing to frailty, old age, disability or ill-health cannot manage without help? If yes, specify which person and how much time is spent on this activity.

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	No	92061	97.7%
2	Yes, 2-19 hours per week	959	1%
3	Yes, 20-49 hours per week	147	0.2%
4	Yes, 50 + hours per week	308	0.3%
5	Do not know	2	0%
9	Unspecified	786	0.8%

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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