General Household Survey 2019

South Africa, 2019

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ZAF_2019_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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Medical help (HHW_HLTFAC)

Data file: zaf-statssa-ghs-2019-household-v1

Overview

Valid: 999

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Width: 2

Range: 1 - 99

Format: Numeric

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Value	Category	Cases
1	Hospital	149	14.9%
2	Clinic	457	45.7%
3	Other in the public sector	2	0.2%
4	Hospital	26	2.6%
5	Clinic	9	0.9%
6	Private doctor/specialist	343	34.3%
7	Traditional healer/sangoma	1	0.1%
8	Spiritual healer's workplace/church	1	0.1%
9	Pharmacy/chemist	6	0.6%
10	Health facility provided by employer	1	0.1%
11	Alternative medicine, e.g. homoeopathist	1	0.1%
12	Other in private sector	1	0.1%
13	Do not know	1	0.1%
99	Unspecified	1	0.1%

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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