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Prevalence of mental illness (%)

Definition	Percentage of population with some self-reported mental illness or disability. In the census questionnaire, respondents were asked to indicate whether or not there were any people with serious visual, hearing, physical or mental disabilities in the household. The seriousness of the disability was not clearly defined. Rather, the respondent’s perceptions of seriousness were relied on.
Reference	Statistics South Africa. Census in Brief. The people of South Africa population census 1996. Pretoria: Statistics South Africa; 1998.
Ref. URL	http://www.statssa.gov.za/
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Indicator Type: -> Health Status -> Disability

Prevalence of mental illness (%) [Definition]
	EC	FS	GP	KZN	LP	MP	NC	NW	WC	ZA
1996	0.7	5.4	0.3	0.5	0.4	0.5	0.5	0.7	0.4	[1] 0.5
1998	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	[2] 1.1
2001	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	[3] 0.6
2007 CS	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	[4] 0.3
EC: Eastern Cape FS: Free State GP: Gauteng KZN: KwaZulu-Natal LP: Limpopo MP: Mpumalanga NC: Northern Cape NW: North West WC: Western Cape ZA: South Africa

Census 1996: Statistics South Africa. Census in Brief. The people of South Africa population census 1996. Pretoria: Statistics South Africa; 1998. http://www.statssa.gov.za/
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CASE Disability Survey: Community Agency for Social Enquiry. We also count! The extent of moderate and severe reported disability and the nature of the disability experience in South Africa. Department of Health; 1999. http://www.doh.gov.za/facts/1997/case.pdf Also available from http://www.case.org.za/htm/wecount2.htm
Local copy: http://www.hst.org.za/indicators/Disability/CASE_we_also_count.pdf
Disability type = Emotional
Census 2001: Statistics South Africa. Census 2001. Census in Brief. Pretoria: Statistics South Africa; 2003. http://www.statssa.gov.za/ There is a range of publications providing data from Census 2001, as well as an online database for downloading selected data.
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Community Survey 2007: Statistics South Africa. Community Survey 2007. Various reports and online databases. http://www.statssa.gov.za
Local copy: http://www.hst.org.za/indicators/StatsSA/CommSurvey/