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? (q14ap3s8)

Data file: ERHS 2009_R7p3_s8a

Overview

Valid: 1144

Invalid: 12

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Width: 3

Range: -99 - 63

Format: Numeric

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Categories

Value	Category	Cases
-99		7	0.6%
-77		247	21.6%
1	Harvests have been good	203	17.7%
2	Adopted new ways of farming	14	1.2%
3	Started growing new crops	8	0.7%
4	Set up a new business or trade	21	1.8%
5	Own business or trade has been profitable	5	0.4%
6	Accumulated livestock	11	1%
7	Live in a nicer house	4	0.3%
8	Accumulated other assets	1	0.1%
9	Managed my crops or livestock well	9	0.8%
10	Managed my business well	6	0.5%
11	Worked hard	78	6.8%
12	Was willing to take risks	0	0%
13	Drink less	1	0.1%
14	Husband drinks less	1	0.1%
15	Have more children	11	1%
16	Husband works hard	10	0.9%
17	Times are better	11	1%
18	Good luck	5	0.4%
19	God has helped	11	1%
20	Better networks	1	0.1%
31	Harvests have been poor	304	26.6%
32	Tried new crops or new ways of farming but they failed	5	0.4%
33	Own business failed or didn't do well	5	0.4%
34	Have less livestock	38	3.3%
35	House is not as nice as it used to be	0	0%
36	Have fewer other assets	4	0.3%
37	Managed my crops poorly	7	0.6%
38	Managed my business poorly	2	0.2%
39	Was lazy	0	0%
40	Did not want to take risks	0	0%
41	Drink too much less	0	0%
42	Husband drinks too much	0	0%
43	Husband has been sick	18	1.6%
44	Husband died	3	0.3%
45	Children sick or died	3	0.3%
46	Children moved away	0	0%
47	Husband is lazy	1	0.1%
48	Times have been bad	78	6.8%
49	Bad luck	2	0.2%
50	God has not helped	1	0.1%
51	Poorer networks	3	0.3%
52	Other	2	0.2%
53	Helped by children	1	0.1%
54	Shortage of farm land	0	0%
55	Sickness of household member	1	0.1%
56	Old age	0	0%
57	Death of husband	0	0%
58	Divorce	0	0%
59	Death of father, mother or family member	1	0.1%
60	Increase family number	0	0%
61	Getting more farm land	0	0%
62	Husband is in prison	0	0%
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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