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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What makes one HH more at risk than another? Reason #1 (q19_8a)

Data file: ERHS 1994a_r1p1s9

Overview

Valid: 1335

Invalid: 2758

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Width: 2

Range: 1 - 99

Format: Numeric

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Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Old age/Poor health	175	13.1%
2	Poor soil quality/erosion	57	4.3%
3	Large family size	88	6.6%
4	Laziness/not working diligently	208	15.6%
5	Lack of oxen, livestock/farm tools	284	21.3%
6	Small farm size (not enough land)	143	10.7%
7	Crop damage by pests/Natural disaster	29	2.2%
8	No community support/family support (remittance)	46	3.4%
9	No valuable asstets owned	74	5.5%
10	Limited or no food stock	44	3.3%
11	Lack of seeds/fertilizer, can't afford to buy fertilizer	26	1.9%
12	Lack of off-farm employment/income opportunities	20	1.5%
13	Small size of livestock herd/flocks	11	0.8%
14	Share-cropping	14	1%
15	Lack/shortage of household labour	18	1.3%
16	Landlessness	36	2.7%
17	Spouse dead or unable to support the household	25	1.9%
18	Improper use of resources/Delayed land preparation	10	0.7%
19	Unequal distribution of land	7	0.5%
20	No backyard gardening	0	0%
21	Rain failure	4	0.3%
23		1	0.1%
25	lack of grazing land and hay	2	0.1%
27	Other	10	0.7%
99	don't know	3	0.2%
Sysmiss		2758

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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