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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Oct 15, 2012

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Why did you want to obtain a loan? (p1s4q4)

Data file: ERHS 1999_p1sec4

Overview

Valid: 1086

Invalid: 1584

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Width: 8

Range: 1 - 30

Format: Numeric

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Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	To buy farm or other tools/implements	65	6%
2	To buy inputs	126	11.6%
3	To buy livestock	40	3.7%
4	To pay for hired labour	5	0.5%
5	To pay rent/taxes	19	1.7%
6	To start an off-farm business	32	2.9%
7	To buy food/goods for the household	492	45.3%
8	For transportation	11	1%
9	To pay for building materials	55	5.1%
10	To pay for health expenses	114	10.5%
11	To pay for education expenses	11	1%
12	For weeding	24	2.2%
13	Funeral expenses	39	3.6%
20	Other	22	2%
21	Ceremonial expenses (Mahiber/festive)	17	1.6%
22	Loan repayment	4	0.4%
23	For recreation	1	0.1%
24	For business expansion	2	0.2%
25	For dev't expenses	0	0%
26	To pay for ploughing with tractor	1	0.1%
27	To pay (contribution) for edir	1	0.1%
28	To pay for penality	1	0.1%
29	For constrution purpose	1	0.1%
30	For bee keeping	3	0.3%
Sysmiss		1584

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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