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Demographic and Health Survey 2016 - IPUMS Subset

South Africa, 2016
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ZAF_2016_DHS_v01_M_v01_A_IPUMS
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National Department of Health (NDoH) [South Africa], Statistics South Africa (Stats SA), South African Medical Research Council (SAMRC), and ICF., Minnesota Population Center
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Source of recent health care: Traditional healer (other) (C_HCPRIVHL)

Data file: ZAF2016-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 1357
End: 1357
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Categories
Value Category
0 No
1 Yes
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
HCPRIVHL indicates whether, in response to an open-ended question, the woman reported she has sought help from a traditional healer.

Some samples in the "HC" series include categories that can be consolidated into a single response. IPUMS DHS uses supplemental programming to combine these responses in a standard variable while preserving the separate responses in country-specific variables.

For example, a given sample might include multiple categories for different types of traditional practitioners/healers that could be combined to create a more comprehensive response category. See Comparability for more information on the specific categories combined in HCPRIVHL.

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Treatment for illness Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
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