General Household Survey 2022

South Africa, 2022

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ZAF_2022_GHS_v01_EN_M_v01_A_ESS

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Government of South Africa, Statistics South Africa (Stats SA)

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Agricultural Surveys

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Feb 19, 2024

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Data file: ghs-2022-person-v1

Overview

Valid: 1000

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Width: 2

Range: 1 - 88

Format: Numeric

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Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Illness	2	0.2%
2	Did not want to go to school	0	0%
3	Need to take care of someone else at home	0	0%
6	The weather was bad	0	0%
7	No money for transport	0	0%
8	Lack of transport/problems with transport	0	0%
9	Writing exams	0	0%
10	Does not feel safe at school	2	0.2%
11	Menstruation/menstrual period	0	0%
12	OTHER REASON THAN ANY OF THE ABOVE	0	0%
13	DO NOT KNOW	0	0%
88	Not applicable	996	99.6%

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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