General Household Survey 2019

South Africa, 2019

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zaf-statssa-ghs-2019-v1

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

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Current status of pregnancy (HLT_PREGSTAT)

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	Currently still pregnant	2	0.2%
2	The child has been born alive	11	1.1%
3	The child died in the womb or during childbirth after the 7th month of pregnancy (stillbirth)	0	0%
4	The child died in the womb or the pregnancy ended before the 7th month of pregnancy (spontaneous abortion/miscarriage)	2	0.2%
5	The pregnancy was ended by choice before the child was born (termination of pregnancy/abortion by choice)	0	0%
8	Not applicable	984	98.5%

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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