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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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Receiving government grant (H_HHGOTGOVGRANT)

Data file: ZAF1998-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 265
End: 265
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
(8) GRANTS/PENSION
Does (NAME) receive a child maintenance grant, a disability grant or a pension from the government?

YES 1
NO 2
DK 8
Categories
Value Category
0 No
1 Yes
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
HHGOTGOVGRANT indicates whether the person is receiving social welfare aid from a government grant.

The complementary variable HHGOTGOVGRANTYP reports the type of government grant aid the person is receiving.

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
SES general Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
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