Education Series Volume IV: Early Childhood Development in South Africa 2016

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The Education Series Volume IV: Early Childhood Development in South Africa, 2016 provides data on child well-being and describes the life situations of children between 0-6 years who were living in dwellings throughout South Africa in 2016. It is published by Statistics South Africa.

The data in this report is as far as possible disaggregated by age, sex, population group, geographic location and to some extent economic background of the household.

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