General Household Survey 2011

South Africa, 2011

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zaf-statssa-ghs-2011-v1.2

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Statistics South Africa

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General Household Survey African Centre of Excellence for Inequality Research

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Jul 24, 2012

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Data file: zaf-statssa-ghs-2011-person-v1.2

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Valid: 998

Invalid: -

Type: Discrete

Range: -

Format: Numeric

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Value	Category
1	Illness/injury
2	Did not want to go to school
3	Need to take care of someone else at home
4	Employed/working outside the home
5	Doing household chores
6	The weather was bad
7	No money for transport
8	Lack of transport/problems with transport
9	Writing exams
10	Does not feel safe at school
11	Other (specify in the box below)
12	Do not know
88	Not applicable
99	Unspecified

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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Imputation

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Security

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