General Household Survey 2024
South Africa, 2024
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Reference ID
ZAF_2024_GHS_v01_M
Producer(s)
Statistics South Africa
Created on
Jul 08, 2025
Last modified
Jul 08, 2025
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- ghs-2024-hhold-v1
- ghs-2024-person-v1
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Data file: ghs-2024-person-v1
Overview
Valid:
1000
Invalid:
0
Type:
Discrete
Decimal:
0
Width:
16
Range:
1 - 88
Format:
Numeric
Questions and instructions
Categories
| Value | Category | Cases | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Illness | 1 |
0.1%
|
| 2 | Did not want to go to school | 0 |
0%
|
| 3 | Need to take care of someone else at home | 0 |
0%
|
| 5 | Doing household chores | 0 |
0%
|
| 6 | The weather was bad | 1 |
0.1%
|
| 7 | No money for transport | 1 |
0.1%
|
| 8 | Lack of transport/problems with transport | 1 |
0.1%
|
| 9 | Writing exams | 0 |
0%
|
| 10 | Does not feel safe at school | 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.