Community Survey 2016 - IPUMS Subset

South Africa, 2016

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Reference ID

ZAF_2016_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS

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Statistics South Africa, IPUMS

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Difficulty communicating (Washington group) (WGCOMM)

Data file: ZAF2016_PHC-P-H

Overview

Type: Discrete

Start: 208

End: 208

Width: 1

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Categories

Value	Category
1	No difficulty
2	Some difficulty
3	A lot of difficulty
4	Cannot do at all
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

WGCOMM indicates the person's level of difficulty in communicating, related to being understood or understanding, even in a usual language.

concept

Concept

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