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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Why did person move? (q19_4a)

Data file: ERHS 1994b_r2p1s9a

Overview

Valid: 661

Invalid: 2526

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Width: 2

Range: 1 - 32

Format: Numeric

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Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	To be with parents	68	10.3%
2	To be near school/Get better education	3	0.5%
3	Parents were unable to care	6	0.9%
4	Sent to relative/friend/adopted,...	11	1.7%
5	Marriage/to live with spouse	391	59.2%
6	Divorced out of family	3	0.5%
7	Returned home	5	0.8%
8	To look for work	23	3.5%
9	To take up job	9	1.4%
10	To be near place of work	1	0.2%
11	To run own enterprise	0	0%
12	Contract ended	1	0.2%
13	Land shortage	31	4.7%
14	Drought	12	1.8%
15	To look after other relatives	10	1.5%
16	Joined the army/rebel forces	0	0%
17	Sick, went for treatment	26	3.9%
18	Migrated, unkonwn intentions	5	0.8%
19	Demobilised soldier	0	0%
20	Forced resettlement	2	0.3%
21	Voluntary resettlement	38	5.7%
22	Security problems	6	0.9%
23	Other	7	1.1%
24	Inherited land	1	0.2%
25	Hope to get better life	2	0.3%
26	Land taken by co'ops, forced to leave original residence	0	0%
27	Rist	0	0%
28	Quarreled/Escape justice	0	0%
29	As pastoralist	0	0%
31	Tenancy	0	0%
32	Bought land in this area	0	0%
Sysmiss		2526

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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