General Household Survey 2015

South Africa, 2015

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zaf-statssa-ghs-2015-v1.2

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Statistics South Africa

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South African Household Survey Data African Centre of Excellence for Inequality Research

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Main reason absent (Q124cRSN)

Data file: GHS 2015 Person v1.2 Stata11

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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
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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