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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Oct 15, 2012

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Why did [Name] joined the HH? (q11_12)

Data file: ERHS 1994b_r2p1s1a

Overview

Valid: 283

Invalid: 1459

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Width: 2

Range: 1 - 14

Format: Numeric

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Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Birth	5	1.8%
2	Came with parent/other adult	33	11.7%
3	To be near to school/get better education	6	2.1%
4	Orphaned or abandoned	10	3.5%
5	Parents unable to care	19	6.7%
6	Came to live with spouse	55	19.4%
7	To look for employment	69	24.4%
8	To be near to place of employment	1	0.4%
9	To help work	29	10.2%
10	To look after other relative	16	5.7%
11	Sick, came to be looked after	6	2.1%
12	Old, came to be looked after	8	2.8%
13	Returned from army	1	0.4%
14	Other	25	8.8%
Sysmiss		1459

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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