General Household Survey 2019

South Africa, 2019

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zaf-statssa-ghs-2019-v1

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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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Absent from school (EDU_ABS)

Data file: zaf-statssa-ghs-2019-person-v1

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Valid: 999

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 8

Format: Numeric

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Value	Category	Cases
1	Yes	12	1.2%
2	No	137	13.7%
3	Do not know	0	0%
4	Not applicable - school closed, e.g. school holiday	16	1.6%
8	Not applicable	834	83.5%

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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