Migrant Health Follow-Up Study Wave 02 (MHFUS)
South Africa, 2019 - 2020
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Reference ID
MHFUS.W2.2025
Producer(s)
Prof. Michael J White, Dr. Carren Ginsburg, Prof. Mark Collinson, Prof F. Xavier Gómez-Olivé, Prof. Steve Tollman
Metadata
Created on
Jan 13, 2026
Last modified
Jan 20, 2026
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- Data files
- MHFUS_W2_DATASET
W2_rem_visfreq (W2_rem_visfreq)
Data file: MHFUS_W2_DATASET
Overview
Valid:
1570
Invalid:
0
Type:
Discrete
Width:
26
Range:
-
Format:
character
Questions and instructions
Categories
| Value | Category | Cases | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Christmas and Easter | 155 |
9.9%
|
|
| Christmas only | 18 |
1.1%
|
|
| I do not visit home | 67 |
4.3%
|
|
| Irregularly | 243 |
15.5%
|
|
| Month ends | 405 |
25.8%
|
|
| Month ends plus holiday(s) | 201 |
12.8%
|
|
| Most weekends | 86 |
5.5%
|
|
| One long period/holiday | 77 |
4.9%
|
|
| Other | 24 |
1.5%
|
|
| School holidays | 170 |
10.8%
|
|
| Two periods/holidays | 124 |
7.9%
|
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.