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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Data file: ERHS 1994a_r1p1s9

Overview

Valid: 1165

Invalid: 2928

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Width: 2

Range: 1 - 99

Format: Numeric

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Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Old age/Poor health	130	11.2%
2	Poor soil quality/erosion	60	5.2%
3	Large family size	66	5.7%
4	Laziness/not working diligently	84	7.2%
5	Lack of oxen, livestock/farm tools	250	21.5%
6	Small farm size (not enough land)	124	10.6%
7	Crop damage by pests/Natural disaster	24	2.1%
8	No community support/family support (remittance)	55	4.7%
9	No valuable asstets owned	73	6.3%
10	Limited or no food stock	40	3.4%
11	Lack of seeds/fertilizer, can't afford to buy fertilizer	56	4.8%
12	Lack of off-farm employment/income opportunities	33	2.8%
13	Small size of livestock herd/flocks	14	1.2%
14	Share-cropping	7	0.6%
15	Lack/shortage of household labour	37	3.2%
16	Landlessness	33	2.8%
17	Spouse dead or unable to support the household	44	3.8%
18	Improper use of resources/Delayed land preparation	19	1.6%
19	Unequal distribution of land	2	0.2%
20	No backyard gardening	1	0.1%
21	Rain failure	2	0.2%
23	poor livestock husbandry	1	0.1%
27	Other	8	0.7%
99	don't know	2	0.2%
Sysmiss		2928

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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