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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Reason for not consulting a health worker (HLT_CONSULT_YNOT)

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

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Valid: 999

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Width: 2

Range: 1 - 88

Format: Numeric

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Value	Category	Cases
1	Too expensive	1	0.1%
2	Too far	0	0%
3	Not necessary/the problem was not serious enough	32	3.2%
4	Self medicated/treated myself	21	2.1%
5	Fear of stigmatisation	0	0%
6	Queues too long	2	0.2%
7	Transportation problems	0	0%
8	Experienced difficulty getting a diagnosis before	0	0%
9	Do not know	0	0%
10	Other	0	0%
88	Not applicable	943	94.4%

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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