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? (q14cp1s7)

Data file: ERHS 2009_R7p1_s7a

Overview

Valid: 789

Invalid: 777

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	48	6.1%
1	Harvests have been good	16	2%
2	Adopted new ways of farming	11	1.4%
3	Started growing new crops	12	1.5%
4	Set up a new business or trade	7	0.9%
5	Own business or trade has been profitable	2	0.3%
6	Accumulated livestock	13	1.6%
7	Live in a nicer house	3	0.4%
8	Accumulated other assets	7	0.9%
9	Managed my crops or livestock well	40	5.1%
10	Managed my business well	18	2.3%
11	Worked hard	78	9.9%
12	Was willing to take risks	4	0.5%
13	Drink less	5	0.6%
14	Wife drinks less	1	0.1%
15	Have more children	5	0.6%
16	Wife works hard	22	2.8%
17	Times are better	37	4.7%
18	Good luck	5	0.6%
19	God has helped	19	2.4%
20	Better networks	14	1.8%
21		1	0.1%
31	Harvests have been poor	32	4.1%
32	Tried new crops or new ways of farming but they failed	7	0.9%
33	Own business failed or didn't do well	4	0.5%
34	Have less livestock	45	5.7%
35	House is not as nice as it used to be	3	0.4%
36	Have fewer other assets	12	1.5%
37	Managed my crops poorly	34	4.3%
38	Managed my business poorly	14	1.8%
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	1	0.1%
43	Wife has been sick	2	0.3%
44	Wife died	2	0.3%
45	Children sick or died	2	0.3%
46	Children moved away	11	1.4%
47	Wife is lazy	0	0%
48	Times have been bad	131	16.6%
49	Bad luck	42	5.3%
50	God has not helped	33	4.2%
51	Poorer networks	8	1%
52	Others	9	1.1%
53	Helped by children	2	0.3%
54	Shortage of farm land	5	0.6%
55	Sickness of household member	3	0.4%
56	Old age	6	0.8%
57	Death of husband	7	0.9%
58	Divorce	0	0%
59	Death of father, mother or family member	3	0.4%
60	Increase family number	1	0.1%
61	Getting more farm land	1	0.1%
62	Husband is in prison	0	0%
63	Rising of food prices	1	0.1%
Sysmiss		777

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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