| Value |
Category |
| 1 |
Health/illness: Went to the doctor / sickness or injury |
| 2 |
Weather conditions / floods/ too hot |
| 3 |
Family responsibilities: Visiting relatives, was out of town/funeral/relative died/looking after family member/child watched livestock/child was working/collecting social grant |
| 4 |
Institutional/in-school factors: educator was absent/educator victimises learner/assaulted by the educator/educator attending course/exam period/no feeding scheme that day/ school opened earlier than expected |
| 5 |
Financial/cost of education: financial problems/school fees unpaid/no transport money/did not go on a school trip/did not have complete uniform |
| 6 |
Child/youth did not want to go to school |
| 7 |
Transport and physical access: Transport unavailable/school is far away |
| 8 |
Child/youth was running late for school/fear of punishment |
| 9 |
Age: Feeling too old/too young to attend school |
| 10 |
Learning Disabilities/ Learning difficulties/Difficulty coping academically |
| 11 |
Food insecurity: no or little food |
| 12 |
Pregnancy |
| 13 |
Not accepted for enrolment |
| 14 |
Boredom with school/subject |
| 15 |
Violence in school/bullying/doesn?t feel safe travelling or walking to school |
| 96 |
Other |
| Sysmiss |
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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.
