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 five years ago, why have your circumstances changed? (q14ap1s7)

Data file: ERHS 2009_R7p1_s7a

Overview

Valid: 1554

Invalid: 12

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Width: 3

Range: -99 - 63

Format: Numeric

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Categories

Value	Category	Cases
-99	DK	0	0%
-88	Missing	2	0.1%
-77	NA	284	18.3%
1	Harvests have been good	265	17.1%
2	Adopted new ways of farming	24	1.5%
3	Started growing new crops	18	1.2%
4	Set up a new business or trade	16	1%
5	Own business or trade has been profitable	5	0.3%
6	Accumulated livestock	20	1.3%
7	Live in a nicer house	3	0.2%
8	Accumulated other assets	2	0.1%
9	Managed my crops or livestock well	23	1.5%
10	Managed my business well	4	0.3%
11	Worked hard	104	6.7%
12	Was willing to take risks	1	0.1%
13	Drink less	1	0.1%
14	Wife drinks less	1	0.1%
15	Have more children	2	0.1%
16	Wife works hard	5	0.3%
17	Times are better	12	0.8%
18	Good luck	1	0.1%
19	God has helped	13	0.8%
20	Better networks	3	0.2%
31	Harvests have been poor	477	30.7%
32	Tried new crops or new ways of farming but they failed	4	0.3%
33	Own business failed or didn't do well	13	0.8%
34	Have less livestock	59	3.8%
35	House is not as nice as it used to be	1	0.1%
36	Have fewer other assets	4	0.3%
37	Managed my crops poorly	18	1.2%
38	Managed my business poorly	4	0.3%
39	Was lazy	0	0%
40	Did not want to take risks	0	0%
41	Drink too much	0	0%
42	Wife drinks too much	0	0%
43	Wife has been sick	3	0.2%
44	Wife died	6	0.4%
45	Children sick or died	5	0.3%
46	Children moved away	9	0.6%
47	Wife is lazy	2	0.1%
48	Times have been bad	72	4.6%
49	Bad luck	11	0.7%
50	God has not helped	0	0%
51	Poorer networks	4	0.3%
52	Others	10	0.6%
53	Helped by children	3	0.2%
54	Shortage of farm land	4	0.3%
55	Sickness of household member	8	0.5%
56	Old age	3	0.2%
57	Death of husband	17	1.1%
58	Divorce	1	0.1%
59	Death of father, mother or family member	1	0.1%
60	Increase family number	2	0.1%
61	Getting more farm land	3	0.2%
62	Husband is in prison	1	0.1%
63	Rising of food prices	0	0%
Sysmiss		12

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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