Afrobarometer Survey 2002-2004
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Institute for Democracy in South Africa (IDASA), Michigan State University (MSU), Ghana Centre for Democratic Development (CDD-Ghana)
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Q5a. First meaning of "poor" (q5a)
Data file: R2merge16-12jan09-newfinal
Overview
Valid:
0
Invalid:
0
Type:
Discrete
Decimal:
0
loc_start_pos:
76
loc_end_pos:
78
Width:
3
Range:
-1 - 999
Format:
Numeric
Questions and instructions
Categories
| Value | Category |
|---|---|
| -1 | Missing data |
| 0 | Nothing |
| 1 | Lack of food |
| 2 | Lack of shelter |
| 3 | Lack of clothing |
| 4 | Lack of money |
| 5 | Low living standards |
| 6 | Lack of social amenities |
| 7 | Lack of education/knowledge |
| 8 | Lack of employment/jobs |
| 9 | Low levels of health |
| 10 | Powerlessness |
| 11 | Living in substandard neighborhood |
| 12 | Any life-threatening situation |
| 13 | No child/spouse/unable to marry a wife |
| 14 | Comparison between self and others, inability to meet expect |
| 15 | Lack of entertainment (newspaper,TV,Radio,Video) |
| 16 | Psychological status/mental health |
| 17 | Exploitive labor (e.g. child labor, prostitution, etc) |
| 18 | Lack of agricultural inputs (land/fertilizers/seeds) |
| 19 | Race (associates black with poverty) |
| 20 | Laziness/person who won't work |
| 21 | Lack of family/social support network |
| 22 | Inability to meet obligations/family responsibilities |
| 23 | Beggar/destitute |
| 24 | Unreligious |
| 25 | A farmer |
| 26 | Poverty (undifferentiated/unspecified) |
| 27 | No water |
| 28 | No electricity |
| 29 | No cattle or livestock |
| 30 | No land |
| 31 | No vehicle/car |
| 32 | In debt |
| 33 | To have too many children to support |
| 34 | To be a single parent |
| 35 | To be old/a pensioner |
| 36 | To depend on or revert to crime |
| 37 | To only live for today/live day-to-day/no future planning |
| 38 | To depend on domestic work/manual labor |
| 39 | To have to rely on others for help |
| 40 | Low social status/no community standing |
| 41 | Street children/living on the street |
| 42 | To be an alcoholic or drug addict |
| 43 | Unable to contribute to the country |
| 49 | Drought/lack of rain |
| 50 | Lack of everything/not having anything |
| 51 | Handicapped |
| 52 | Racism/Suffering from discrimination |
| 53 | Without love or affection |
| 54 | To be sad, miserable, poor of spirit |
| 55 | To have lots of problems or difficulties |
| 56 | Lack of opportunities or possibilities |
| 57 | Lack of common sense, foolish, or poor planning |
| 58 | A natural condition/something one is born to |
| 59 | A national problem/caused by government or its policy |
| 60 | Lack of assets/property/wealth |
| 61 | Lack of school fees |
| 62 | Insecurity, lack of peace |
| 63 | Being rural |
| 64 | Income below a certain level |
| 65 | Can't afford luxuries |
| 81 | Orphan/have no parents |
| 162 | Rural women |
| 165 | Lack of equipment for production |
| 169 | Chetif |
| 170 | Having misfortune, bad luck |
| 180 | Lack of Firewood |
| 181 | Lack of Businesses/Markets |
| 182 | Poor Agric |
| 995 | Other |
| 996 | No further answer |
| 998 | Refused to answer |
| 999 | Don't know |
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.