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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method used for recent abortion (s236b)

Data file: ZACR71FL

Overview

Valid: 0

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

loc_start_pos: 2818

loc_end_pos: 2819

Width: 2

Range: 11 - 98

Format: Numeric

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Categories

Value	Category
11	surgical abortion
21	medical abortion
31	surgical and medical
41	self-induced
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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