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: 608

Invalid: 3485

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Width: 2

Range: 1 - 99

Format: Numeric

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Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Old age/Poor health	95	15.6%
2	Poor soil quality/erosion	32	5.3%
3	Large family size	51	8.4%
4	Laziness/not working diligently	47	7.7%
5	Lack of oxen, livestock/farm tools	60	9.9%
6	Small farm size (not enough land)	50	8.2%
7	Crop damage by pests/Natural disaster	9	1.5%
8	No community support/family support (remittance)	46	7.6%
9	No valuable asstets owned	27	4.4%
10	Limited or no food stock	18	3%
11	Lack of seeds/fertilizer, can't afford to buy fertilizer	33	5.4%
12	Lack of off-farm employment/income opportunities	22	3.6%
13	Small size of livestock herd/flocks	16	2.6%
14	Share-cropping	4	0.7%
15	Lack/shortage of household labour	15	2.5%
16	Landlessness	18	3%
17	Spouse dead or unable to support the household	31	5.1%
18	Improper use of resources/Delayed land preparation	15	2.5%
19	Unequal distribution of land	5	0.8%
20	No backyard gardening	3	0.5%
21	Rain failure	2	0.3%
22	lack of permanent crops	1	0.2%
24	newly formed household	2	0.3%
27	Other	4	0.7%
99	don't know	2	0.3%
Sysmiss		3485

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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