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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Reason for not going to school? -Reason 1 (q12_2a)

Data file: ERHS 1994b_r2p1s2a

Overview

Valid: 6431

Invalid: 2890

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Width: 2

Range: 1 - 23

Format: Numeric

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Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Too young	2236	34.8%
2	Was required for farm activity	1270	19.7%
3	Was required for other HH activity	1190	18.5%
4	Was required to care for sick/elderly	41	0.6%
5	Was required to work for wages	31	0.5%
6	Too expensive to go to school	533	8.3%
7	School to distant	324	5%
8	Not appropriate for female children	198	3.1%
9	Schooling believed not to increase income	69	1.1%
10	Could learn everything useful at home	16	0.2%
11	Disabled	65	1%
12	Child considered not capable of school work	54	0.8%
13	No places available in local school	133	2.1%
14	No school of appropriate religion	47	0.7%
15	Other reason	80	1.2%
16	My parents never allowed me	18	0.3%
17	Not realizing value of education	112	1.7%
19	Learn at religious school (church, koranic)	5	0.1%
20	My peers not in school	1	0%
22	Due to large family size	1	0%
23	Don't want education	7	0.1%
Sysmiss		2890

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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