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General Household Survey 2015

South Africa, 2015
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Disability (disab)

Data file: ghs_2015_person_v1.1_20160608

Overview

Valid: 74449
Invalid: 0
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 228
End: 228
Width: 1
Range: 0 - 9
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Categories
Value Category Cases
0 Not disabled 65375
87.8%
1 Disabled 8834
11.9%
9 Unspecified 240
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.

Description

Definition
If an individual has 'Some difficulty' (2) or 'A lot of difficulty' (3) or is 'Unable to do' (4) so for one or more categories, they are classified as disabled as per question 2.8.
Universe
This is applicable to all household members aged 5 years and older in the selected dwelling unit.

Imputation and derivation

Derivation
If an individual has 'Some difficulty' (2) or 'A lot of difficulty' (3) or is 'Unable to do' (4) so for one or more categories, they are classified as disabled as per question 2.8.
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