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? (q14bp1s7)

Data file: ERHS 2009_R7p1_s7a

Overview

Valid: 1230

Invalid: 336

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	0	0%
-77	NA	45	3.7%
1	Harvests have been good	37	3%
2	Adopted new ways of farming	38	3.1%
3	Started growing new crops	40	3.3%
4	Set up a new business or trade	13	1.1%
5	Own business or trade has been profitable	13	1.1%
6	Accumulated livestock	45	3.7%
7	Live in a nicer house	13	1.1%
8	Accumulated other assets	5	0.4%
9	Managed my crops or livestock well	53	4.3%
10	Managed my business well	13	1.1%
11	Worked hard	128	10.4%
12	Was willing to take risks	0	0%
13	Drink less	4	0.3%
14	Wife drinks less	1	0.1%
15	Have more children	10	0.8%
16	Wife works hard	12	1%
17	Times are better	16	1.3%
18	Good luck	5	0.4%
19	God has helped	27	2.2%
20	Better networks	17	1.4%
28		1	0.1%
31	Harvests have been poor	92	7.5%
32	Tried new crops or new ways of farming but they failed	21	1.7%
33	Own business failed or didn't do well	20	1.6%
34	Have less livestock	189	15.4%
35	House is not as nice as it used to be	2	0.2%
36	Have fewer other assets	15	1.2%
37	Managed my crops poorly	25	2%
38	Managed my business poorly	12	1%
39	Was lazy	3	0.2%
40	Did not want to take risks	0	0%
41	Drink too much	4	0.3%
42	Wife drinks too much	1	0.1%
43	Wife has been sick	3	0.2%
44	Wife died	6	0.5%
45	Children sick or died	8	0.7%
46	Children moved away	22	1.8%
47	Wife is lazy	0	0%
48	Times have been bad	179	14.6%
49	Bad luck	37	3%
50	God has not helped	9	0.7%
51	Poorer networks	7	0.6%
52	Others	7	0.6%
53	Helped by children	2	0.2%
54	Shortage of farm land	5	0.4%
55	Sickness of household member	7	0.6%
56	Old age	6	0.5%
57	Death of husband	5	0.4%
58	Divorce	0	0%
59	Death of father, mother or family member	0	0%
60	Increase family number	2	0.2%
61	Getting more farm land	1	0.1%
62	Husband is in prison	0	0%
63	Rising of food prices	4	0.3%
Sysmiss		336

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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