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General Household Survey 2015

South Africa, 2015
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ZAF_2015_GHS_v01_M
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Statistics South Africa
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Current status of pregnancy (Q27bSTA)

Data file: ghs_2015_person_v1.1_20160608

Overview

Valid: 74449
Invalid: 0
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 174
End: 174
Width: 1
Range: -
Format:

Questions and instructions

Question pretext
If “Yes” in Q2.7a
Literal question
Does… have difficulty in doing any of the following?

a = Seeing (even with glasses if he/she wears them)
b = Hearing (even with a hearing aid, if he/she wears one)
c = Walking a kilometre or climbing a flight of steps
d = Remembering and concentrating
e = With self-care, such as washing or dressing
f = In communicating in his/her usual language, including sign language (understanding others and being understood by others)
Categories
Value Category
1 Currently still pregnant
2 The child has been born alive
3 The child died in the womb or during childbirth after the 7th month of pregnancy (stillbirth)
4 The child died in the womb or the pregnancy ended before the 7th month of pregnancy (spontaneous abortion/miscarriage)
5 The pregnancy was ended by choice before the child was born (termination of pregnancy/abortion by choice)
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
This question measures disability and focuses on seven areas of functioning. Each option or area of functioning has to be read out to the respondent.
The respondent has to rate each individual in terms of the degree to which someone has difficulties doing the particular activity.
If someone has no difficulty for all the listed options they have to skip to Q2.9.

Description

Universe
This is applicable to all members aged five years and older in the household
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