Ethiopian Rural Household Survey 1989-2009

Ethiopia, 1989 - 2009

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eth-csae-erhs-1989-2009-v1

Producer(s)

International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), Centre for the study of African Economies (CSAE), Department of Economics, Addis Ababa University (AAU)

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Oct 15, 2012

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Reason for members who left since Round 4 (p1s1q111)

Data file: ERHS 1999_p1sec1

Overview

Valid: 1385

Invalid: 10548

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Width: 8

Range: 1 - 23

Format: Numeric

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Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	To be with parent	187	13.5%
2	To be near school/Get a better education	47	3.4%
3	Parents were too sick/unable to care for him/her	21	1.5%
4	Sent to relative/friends for other reason/Adopted/Gudifetcha	87	6.3%
5	To live with spouse/marriage	383	27.7%
6	Divorced out of family	87	6.3%
7	Returned home	90	6.5%
8	To look for work	105	7.6%
9	To take up job	37	2.7%
10	To be near to their place of work	16	1.2%
11	To run own farm or enterprise	5	0.4%
12	Contract ended	8	0.6%
14	Land shortage	2	0.1%
15	To look after other relatives	30	2.2%
16	Conscripted into the army	65	4.7%
17	Sick, went for treatment	5	0.4%
18	Migrated, intentions unknown	11	0.8%
19	Death	173	12.5%
20	Other	21	1.5%
21	Displaced b/c he/she is an Eritrean	2	0.1%
22	Don't know	1	0.1%
23	For educational training	2	0.1%
Sysmiss		10548

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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