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 2 (q12_2b)

Data file: ERHS 1994b_r2p1s2a

Overview

Valid: 636

Invalid: 8685

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Width: 2

Range: 1 - 23

Format: Numeric

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Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Too young	12	1.9%
2	Was required for farm activity	73	11.5%
3	Was required for other HH activity	118	18.6%
4	Was required to care for sick/elderly	12	1.9%
5	Was required to work for wages	13	2%
6	Too expensive to go to school	109	17.1%
7	School to distant	145	22.8%
8	Not appropriate for female children	34	5.3%
9	Schooling believed not to increase income	42	6.6%
10	Could learn everything useful at home	8	1.3%
11	Disabled	12	1.9%
12	Child considered not capable of school work	12	1.9%
13	No places available in local school	17	2.7%
14	No school of appropriate religion	3	0.5%
15	Other reason	6	0.9%
16	My parents never allowed me	3	0.5%
17	Not realizing value of education	8	1.3%
19	Learn at religious school (church, koranic)	8	1.3%
20	My peers not in school	1	0.2%
22	Due to large family size	0	0%
23	Don't want education	0	0%
Sysmiss		8685

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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