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 (s)he leave? (q2p1s1c)

Data file: ERHS 2009_R7p1_s1c_yyrv

Overview

Valid: 1991

Invalid: 2

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Width: 3

Range: -99 - 22

Format: Numeric

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Categories

Value	Category	Cases
-99	DK	2	0.1%
-88	Missing	0	0%
-77	NA	0	0%
1	To be with parent	216	10.8%
2	To be near school / get better education	110	5.5%
3	Parents were too sick/unable to care for him/her	10	0.5%
4	Sent to relative/friends for other reason/adopted/Gudifetcha	58	2.9%
5	To live with spouse/marriage	653	32.8%
6	Divorced out of family	65	3.3%
7	Returned home	78	3.9%
8	To look for work	209	10.5%
9	To take up job	146	7.3%
10	To be near their place of work	10	0.5%
11	To run own farm or enterprise	20	1%
12	Contract ended	36	1.8%
13	Returned from army	1	0.1%
14	Land shortage	1	0.1%
15	To look after other relatives	42	2.1%
16	Conscripted into army	2	0.1%
17	Sick, went for treatment	4	0.2%
18	Migrated, intentions unknown	14	0.7%
19	Death	295	14.8%
20	Other	12	0.6%
21	To be imprisoned	6	0.3%
22		1	0.1%
Sysmiss		2

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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