2024 Zambia Demographic and Health Survey
Seventh Edition

Zambia, 2024

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ZMB-ZSA-ZDHS-2024-V1.0

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Zambia Statistics Agency

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Data file: ZMBR81FL

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Valid: 35610

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Width: 8

Range: 0 - 4

Format: Numeric

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Categories

Value	Category	Cases
0	cannot read at all	16260	45.7%
1	able to read only parts of sentence	5575	15.7%
2	able to read whole sentence	13730	38.6%
3	no card with required language	20	0.1%
4	blind/visually impaired	25	0.1%

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.

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