General Household Survey 2015

South Africa, 2015

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Reference ID

ZAF_2015_GHS_v01_M

Producer(s)

Statistics South Africa

Metadata

DDI/XML JSON

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Jun 26, 2017

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Jun 26, 2017

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Reading (Q19READ)

Data file: ghs_2015_person_v1.1_20160608

Overview

Valid: 74449

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 63

End: 63

Width: 1

Range: -

Format:

Questions and instructions

Literal question

Does …… have difficulty in doing any of the following…?

Categories

Value	Category
1	No difficulty
2	Some difficulty
3	A lot of difficulty
4	Unable to do
5	Do not know
8	Not applicable
9	Unspecified

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.

Interviewer instructions

The survey officer is instructed to indicate next to each option the extent to which the individual finds it difficult to execute any of these listed tasks. It is a question that is related to determining literacy and numeracy of the individual.

Description

Universe

This is applicable to all members of the household in the selected dwelling unit who are five years and older and whose level of education is lower than Grade 7.

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