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General Household Survey 2015

South Africa, 2015
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Literacy (Literacy3b)

Data file: ghs_2015_person_v1.1_20160608

Overview

Valid: 74449
Invalid: 0
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 230
End: 230
Width: 1
Range: 0 - 9
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Categories
Value Category Cases
0 Literate 65329
87.8%
1 Illiterate 8890
11.9%
9 Unspecified 230
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 'A lot of difficulty' (3) or 'Unable to' (4) read (e.g. newspaper magazines, religious books) or writing a letter in at least one language, then the person is illiterate.

Imputation and derivation

Derivation
If an individual has 'A lot of difficulty' (3) or 'Unable to' (4) read (e.g. newspaper magazines, religious books) or writing a letter in at least one language, then the person is illiterate.
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