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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Compared to ten years ago, why have your circumstances changed? (Code i, respons (q38_15a)

Data file: ERHS 2004_r6p3s8_Q1to18

Overview

Valid: 827

Invalid: 116

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Width: 51

Range: 1 - 537

Format: Numeric

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Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Harvests have been good	152	18.4%
2	Adopted new ways of farming	22	2.7%
3	Started growing new crops	15	1.8%
4	Set up a new business or trade	7	0.8%
5	Own business or trade has been profitable	2	0.2%
6	Accumulated livestock	22	2.7%
7	Live in a nicer house	15	1.8%
8	Accumulated other assets	5	0.6%
9	Managed my crops or livestock well	10	1.2%
10	Managed my business well	5	0.6%
11	Worked hard	49	5.9%
12	Was willing to take risks	2	0.2%
13	Drink less	2	0.2%
14	husband drinks less	0	0%
15	Have more children	27	3.3%
16	Husband works hard	12	1.5%
17	Times are better	18	2.2%
18	Good luck	6	0.7%
19	God has helped	14	1.7%
20	Better networks	1	0.1%
21		1	0.1%
25		1	0.1%
31	Harvests have been poor	231	27.9%
32	Tried new crops/new ways of farming but they failed	1	0.1%
33	Own business failed or didn't do well	19	2.3%
34	Have less livestock	50	6%
35	House is not as nice as it used to be	6	0.7%
36	Have fewer other assets	4	0.5%
37	Managed my crops poorly	9	1.1%
38	Managed my business poorly	5	0.6%
39	Was lazy	0	0%
40	Did not want to take risks	1	0.1%
41	Drink too much less	1	0.1%
42	Husband drinks too much	2	0.2%
43	Husband has been sick	8	1%
44	Husband died	2	0.2%
45	Children sick or died	4	0.5%
46	Children moved away	1	0.1%
47	Husband is lazy	1	0.1%
48	Times have been bad	54	6.5%
49	Bad luck	6	0.7%
50	God has not helped	1	0.1%
51	Poorer networks	2	0.2%
52	Other	20	2.4%
521		1	0.1%
523		3	0.4%
533		2	0.2%
534		1	0.1%
535		3	0.4%
537		1	0.1%
Sysmiss		116

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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