General Household Survey 2016
South Africa, 2016
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Reference ID
ZAF_2016_GHS_v01_EN_M_v01_A_OCS
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Statistics South Africa
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Oct 13, 2020
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Main reason for absence (Q124cRSN)
Data file: GHS 2016 Person v1.1 Stata11
Overview
Valid:
72602
Invalid:
0
Type:
Discrete
Decimal:
0
Start:
149
End:
150
Width:
2
Range:
1 - 99
Format:
Numeric
Questions and instructions
Categories
| Value | Category | Cases | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Illness/injury | 238 |
0.3%
|
| 2 | Did not want to go to school | 74 |
0.1%
|
| 3 | Need to take care of someone else at home | 6 |
0%
|
| 5 | Doing household chores | 4 |
0%
|
| 6 | The weather was bad | 24 |
0%
|
| 7 | No money for transport | 11 |
0%
|
| 8 | Lack of transport/problems with transport | 17 |
0%
|
| 9 | Writing exams | 246 |
0.3%
|
| 10 | Does not feel safe at school | 9 |
0%
|
| 11 | Other | 319 |
0.4%
|
| 12 | Do not know | 15 |
0%
|
| 88 | Not applicable | 71163 |
98%
|
| 99 | Unspecified | 476 |
0.7%
|
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.