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Community Survey 2016 - IPUMS Subset

South Africa, 2016
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ZAF_2016_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
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Statistics South Africa, IPUMS
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Ran out of money to buy food for 5 or more days in past 30 days (ZA2016A_MONEYFD30)

Data file: ZAF2016_PHC-H-H

Overview

Type: Discrete
Start: 337
End: 337
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
<span class="h2">4 Housing, household goods, services and crime and agricultural activities </span></p>

<p>Now, I am going to ask you some questions related to housing, household goods and services, crime and agricultural activities for this particular household.</p>

<p><span class="em">Food security</span></p>

<p>[4.106] Has this happened for 5 or more days in the past 30 days?</p>
<div class="i1">[] 1 Yes<br />[] 2 No<br />[] 3 Do not know</div>
Categories
Value Category
1 Yes
2 No
3 Do not know
8 Unknown
9 NIU (not in universe)
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
This variable indicates whether the household ran out of money to buy food for 5 or more days in past 30 days.
Universe
South Africa 2016: Households that ran out of money to buy food in the past twelve months [discrepancies: type I trace; type II none]

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