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 take a loan? (q2p1s4)

Data file: ERHS 2009_R7p1_s4a

Overview

Valid: 1510

Invalid: 67

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Width: 3

Range: -99 - 9

Format: Numeric

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Categories

Value	Category	Cases
-99	DK	0	0%
-88	Missing	3	0.2%
-77	NA	936	62%
1	NO NEED FOR A LOAN	365	24.2%
2	TRIED TO GET A LOAN BUT WAS REFUSED	12	0.8%
3	NO-ONE AVAILABLE TO GET A LOAN FROM	24	1.6%
4	EXPECTED TO BE REJECTED, SO DID NOT TRY TO GET ONE	9	0.6%
5	I HAVE NO ASSETS FOR COLLATERAL	9	0.6%
6	AFRAID OF LOSING COLLATERAL	6	0.4%
7	AFRAID THAT I CANNOT PAY BACK	134	8.9%
8	INTEREST RATES TOO HIGH	9	0.6%
9	OTHERS	3	0.2%
Sysmiss		67

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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