Demographic and Health Survey 1998 - IPUMS Subset

South Africa, 1998

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Reference ID

ZAF_1998_DHS_v01_M_v01_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

Department of Health [South Africa] and Macro International Inc., Minnesota Population Center

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Ethnicity, South Africa (C_ETHNICITYZA)

Data file: ZAF1998-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 260

End: 260

Width: 1

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

119 Which race group do you consider yourself?

BLACK/AFRICAN 1
COLOURED 2
WHITE 3
ASIAN/INDIAN 4

Categories

Value	Category
6	Other
1	Black/African
2	Colored
3	White
4	Asian/Indian
8	Missing

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.

Description

Definition

ETHNICITYZA is a variable specific to South Africa that reports responses to a question about the respondent's ethnicity or race group.

concept

Concept

var_concept.title	Vocabulary
Ethnicity and religion Variables -- TOPICS	IPUMS

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