Demographic and Health Survey 2016 - IPUMS Subset

South Africa, 2016

Reference ID

ZAF_2016_DHS_v01_M_v01_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

National Department of Health (NDoH) [South Africa], Statistics South Africa (Stats SA), South African Medical Research Council (SAMRC), and ICF., Minnesota Population Center

Metadata

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Jan 16, 2021

Last modified

Jan 16, 2021

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Ethnicity, South Africa (W_ETHNICITYZA)

Data file: ZAF2016-W.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 284

End: 284

Width: 1

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Categories

Value	Category
6	Other
1	Black/African
2	Colored
3	White
4	Asian/Indian
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

ETHNICITYZA is a variable specific to South Africa that reports responses to a question about the respondent's ethnicity or race group.

concept

Concept

var_concept.title	Vocabulary
Ethnicity and religion Variables -- TOPICS	IPUMS

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