Ethiopian Rural Household Survey 1989-2009

Ethiopia, 1989 - 2009

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eth-csae-erhs-1989-2009-v1

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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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Why was the child not attending school/discontinued class? (p1s2q6)

Data file: ERHS 1999_p1sec2

Overview

Valid: 4347

Invalid: 5061

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Width: 8

Range: 0 - 23

Format: Numeric

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Categories

Value	Category	Cases
0	Always going to school	1438	33.1%
1	Too young	1043	24%
2	Was required for farm activities	575	13.2%
3	Was required for other household activities	578	13.3%
4	Was required to care for sick/elderly	14	0.3%
5	Was required to work for wages	42	1%
6	To expensive to go to school	221	5.1%
7	School too distant	98	2.3%
8	Not appropriate for female children to go to school	30	0.7%
9	Schooling believed not to increase income	42	1%
10	Could learn everything useful at home	6	0.1%
11	Too sickly to attend	48	1.1%
12	Children health/age reasons	125	2.9%
13	No places available in local school	8	0.2%
14	No school of appropriate religion available	3	0.1%
15	Others	49	1.1%
16	Because of marriage	8	0.2%
17	Not willing to send to school	3	0.1%
18	Have no knowledge about the importance of schooling	2	0%
19	Not willing to go to school	4	0.1%
20	Security problem	1	0%
21	Death of mother	5	0.1%
22	Language Problem (Oromiffa)	2	0%
23	Academic failure	2	0%
Sysmiss		5061

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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