Demographic and Health Survey 2016
South Africa

South Africa, 2016

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zaf-doh-statssa-dhs-2016-v1

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National Department of Health, Medical Research Council, Statistics South Africa

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Mar 22, 2019

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Data file: ZACR71FL

Overview

Valid: 0

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

loc_start_pos: 1409

loc_end_pos: 1410

Width: 2

Range: 1 - 98

Format: Numeric

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Categories

Value	Category
1	became pregnant
2	wanted to become pregnant
3	husband disapproved
4	side effects
5	health concerns
6	access, availability
7	wanted more effective method
8	inconvenient to use
9	infrequent sex, husband away
10	cost
11	fatalistic
12	difficult pregnancy, menopause
13	marital dissolution
14	other
98	don't know

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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