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Demographic and Health Survey 1998 - IPUMS Subset

South Africa, 1998
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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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Household has telephone (C_HHPHONE)

Data file: ZAF1998-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 414
End: 414
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
29 Does your household have:
Electricity?
A radio?
A television?
A telephone?
A refrigerator?
A personal computer (PC)?
A washing machine?

ELECTRICITY

YES 1
NO2

RADIO

YES 1
NO2

TELEVISION

YES 1
NO2

TELEPHONE

YES 1
NO2

REFRIGERATOR

YES 1
NO2

PERSONAL COMPUTER

YES 1
NO2

WASHING MACHINE

YES 1
NO2
Categories
Value Category
0 No
1 Yes
6 Non-resident
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
HHPHONE (V153) indicates whether the household has a telephone. How the question was worded changed over time. See Comparability. The related variable MOBPHONE covers the household's access to a mobile phone, specifically.

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Possessions Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
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