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General Household Survey 2008

South Africa, 2008
Statistics South Africa
Statistics South Africa
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Reason not attending school (Q117Rsnn)

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

Overview

Valid: 998
Invalid: 0
Type: discrete
Decimal: 0
loc_width: 2
var_range: 1 - 99
var_format: numeric

Questions and instructions

Categories
Value Category Cases
1 Too old/young 286
28.7%
2 Has completed school/education 78
7.8%
3 School/education institution is too far away 7
0.7%
4 No money for fees 52
5.2%
5 He/she is working (at home or job) 184
18.4%
6 Education is useless or uninteresting 56
5.6%
7 Illness 9
0.9%
8 Pregnancy 5
0.5%
9 Failed exams 17
1.7%
10 Got married 6
0.6%
11 Family commitment (child minding, etc.) 22
2.2%
12 Other 7
0.7%
88 Not applicable 263
26.4%
99 Unspecified 6
0.6%
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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