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 2 (q19_7b)

Data file: ERHS 1994a_r1p1s9

Overview

Valid: 520

Invalid: 3573

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	41	7.9%
2	Crop damage by pests/Natural disaster (flood, wind,...)	136	26.2%
3	Population increase/large family size (too many children)	8	1.5%
4	Poor soil quality/erosion	27	5.2%
5	Lack of off-farm employment/income opportunities	7	1.3%
6	Insufficient food stocks	32	6.2%
7	Shortage of arable land/landlessness	38	7.3%
8	Lack of oxen, other livestock/farm tools	73	14%
9	Lack of seeds (improved/local) and fertilizer	62	11.9%
10	Better rains/Better crops	6	1.2%
11	Not yet recovered from previous drought	3	0.6%
13	Experience/recovery from previous drought	2	0.4%
14	Ownership of oxen, livestock/farm tools	6	1.2%
15	Improved market supply	8	1.5%
16	Hard work	4	0.8%
17	High market price of grain/food/fertilizer	12	2.3%
18		22	4.2%
19	Reduced pressure from loca/PA authorities (No AMC quota)	4	0.8%
20	Have backyard gardening	5	1%
21	Old age/Poor health	4	0.8%
22	lack of permanent crops	1	0.2%
29	Other	18	3.5%
99	don't know	1	0.2%
Sysmiss		3573

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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