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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Describe reason- Reason 1 (q19_7a)

Data file: ERHS 1994a_r1p1s9

Overview

Valid: 1240

Invalid: 2853

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Width: 2

Range: 1 - 99

Format: Numeric

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Value	Category	Cases
1	Rain failure (Belg;Meher;Meher&Belg)/Unreliablility	530	42.7%
2	Crop damage by pests/Natural disaster (flood, wind,...)	111	9%
3	Population increase/large family size (too many children)	39	3.1%
4	Poor soil quality/erosion	22	1.8%
5	Lack of off-farm employment/income opportunities	7	0.6%
6	Insufficient food stocks	33	2.7%
7	Shortage of arable land/landlessness	51	4.1%
8	Lack of oxen, other livestock/farm tools	51	4.1%
9	Lack of seeds (improved/local) and fertilizer	33	2.7%
10	Better rains/Better crops	35	2.8%
11	Not yet recovered from previous drought	43	3.5%
13	Experience/recovery from previous drought	11	0.9%
14	Ownership of oxen, livestock/farm tools	13	1%
15	Improved market supply	9	0.7%
16	Hard work	14	1.1%
17	High market price of grain/food/fertilizer	38	3.1%
18		45	3.6%
19	Reduced pressure from loca/PA authorities (No AMC quota)	47	3.8%
20	Have backyard gardening	8	0.6%
21	Old age/Poor health	1	0.1%
22	lack of permanent crop	20	1.6%
29	Other	69	5.6%
99	don't know	10	0.8%
Sysmiss		2853

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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