General Household Survey 2015

South Africa, 2015

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Reference ID

ZAF_2015_GHS_v01_EN_M_v01_A_OCS

Producer(s)

Statistics South Africa

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Agricultural Surveys

Metadata

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Sep 28, 2020

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Filling in a form (Q19FORM)

Data file: ghs_2015_person_v1.1_20160608

Overview

Valid: 74449

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 64

End: 64

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 9

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

Does …… have difficulty in doing any of the following…?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	No difficulty	6818	9.2%
2	Some difficulty	2542	3.4%
3	A lot of difficulty	3372	4.5%
4	Unable to do	8858	11.9%
5	Do not know	78	0.1%
8	Not applicable	52562	70.6%
9	Unspecified	219	0.3%

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.

Interviewer instructions

The survey officer is instructed to indicate next to each option the extent to which the individual finds it difficult to execute any of these listed tasks. It is a question that is related to determining literacy and numeracy of the individual.

Description

Universe

This is applicable to all members of the household in the selected dwelling unit who are five years and older and whose level of education is lower than Grade 7.

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