General Household Survey 2024

South Africa, 2024

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Jun 02, 2025

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Absent from school (edu_abs)

Data file: ghs-2024-person-v1

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Valid: 1000

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Width: 16

Range: 1 - 8

Format: Numeric

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Value	Category	Cases
1	Yes	4	0.4%
2	No	136	13.6%
3	DO NOT KNOW	0	0%
4	Not applicable – school closed, e.g. school holiday	25	2.5%
8	Not applicable	835	83.5%

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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