General Household Survey 2018

South Africa, 2018

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zaf-statssa-ghs-2018-v1

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Statistics South Africa

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South African Household Survey Data

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Apr 23, 2020

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Data file: ghs-2018-person-1.0-stata11

Overview

Valid: 0

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

loc_start_pos: 125

loc_end_pos: 126

Width: 2

Range: 1 - 99

Format: Numeric

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Categories

Value	Category
1	Illness/injury
2	Did not want to go to school
3	Need to take care of someone else at 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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