General Household Survey 2009
South Africa, 2009
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GHS 2009
House_v1 -
GHS 2009
Person_v1 -
GHS 2009
Tourism_v1
Main reason absent (q127crsn)
Data file: GHS 2009 Person_v1
Overview
Valid:
94263
Invalid:
0
Type:
Discrete
Decimal:
0
Start:
112
End:
113
Width:
2
Range:
-
Format:
Questions and instructions
Question pretext
Ask if “Yes” in Q1.27a
Literal question
1.27c What is the main reason why …… was absent from school during the past school calendar week?
Categories
| Value | Category |
|---|---|
| 1 | Illness/injury |
| 2 | Did not want to go to school |
| 3 | Need to take care of someone else at home |
| 4 | Employed/Working outside the home |
| 5 | Doing household chores |
| 6 | The weather was bad |
| 7 | No money for transport |
| 8 | Lack of transport/problems with Transport |
| 9 | Writing exams |
| 10 | Does not feel safe at school |
| 11 | Other (specify in the box below) |
| 12 | Do not know |
| 88 | Not applicable |
| 99 | 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.