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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How or why did he/she enter the HH? (q13_4)

Data file: ERHS 1994a_r1p1s1t4

Overview

Valid: 1936

Invalid: 6942

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

loc_start_pos: 45

loc_end_pos: 46

Width: 2

Range: 1 - 99

Format: Numeric

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Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Birth	1371	70.8%
2	Came with parents/other adults	81	4.2%
3	To be near school/get better education	15	0.8%
4	Orphaned or abandoned	41	2.1%
5	Parents are to sick to care for him/her	25	1.3%
6	Came to live with spouse	176	9.1%
7	To look for employment	53	2.7%
8	To be near to place of employment	3	0.2%
9	To help work on farm or enterprise	44	2.3%
10	To look after other relatives	15	0.8%
11	Sick, came to be looked after by	15	0.8%
12	Old, came to be look after	23	1.2%
13	Returned from army	27	1.4%
14	Other	47	2.4%
88	Not willing	0	0%
99	Don't know	0	0%
Sysmiss		6942

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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