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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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Ethnicity, South Africa (W_ETHNICITYZA)

Data file: ZAF1998-W.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 256
End: 256
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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