General Household Survey 2008

South Africa, 2008

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Relationship to the head (Q11relshh)

Data file: zaf-statssa-ghs-2008-person-v1.4

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Valid: 998

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

loc_start_pos: 41

loc_end_pos: 42

Width: 2

Range: 1 - 99

Format: Numeric

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Value	Category	Cases
1	Mark the head/acting head	266	26.7%
2	Husband/wife/partner	160	16%
3	Son/Daughter/Stepchild/Adopted child	378	37.9%
4	Brother/Sister/Stepbrother/Stepsister	24	2.4%
5	Father/Mother/Stepfather/Stepmother	8	0.8%
6	Grandparent/Great-grandparent	2	0.2%
7	Grandchild/Great-grandchild	100	10%
8	Other relative (e.g. in-laws or aunt/uncle)	41	4.1%
9	Non-related persons	19	1.9%
99	Unspecified	0	0%

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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