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 (parent, grandpa,...) move? (q19_4b)

Data file: ERHS 1994b_r2p1s9a

Overview

Valid: 233

Invalid: 2954

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Width: 2

Range: 1 - 99

Format: Numeric

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Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	To be with parents	36	15.5%
2	To be near school/Get better education	0	0%
3	Parents were unable to care	0	0%
4	Sent to relative/friend/adopted,...	6	2.6%
5	Marriage/to live with spouse	67	28.8%
6	Divorced out of family	1	0.4%
7	Returned home	2	0.9%
8	To look for work	9	3.9%
9	To take up job	2	0.9%
10	To be near place of work	2	0.9%
11	To run own enterprise	2	0.9%
12	Contract ended	0	0%
13	Land shortage	45	19.3%
14	Drought	1	0.4%
15	To look after other relatives	2	0.9%
16	Joined the army/rebel forces	0	0%
17	Sick, went for treatment	2	0.9%
18	Migrated, unkonwn intentions	6	2.6%
19	Demobilised soldier	0	0%
20	Forced resettlement	1	0.4%
21	Voluntary resettlement	2	0.9%
22	Security problems	5	2.1%
23	Other	4	1.7%
24	Inherited land	4	1.7%
25	Hope to get better life	0	0%
26	Land taken by co'ops, forced to leave original residence	0	0%
27	Rist	1	0.4%
28	Quarreled/Escape justice	3	1.3%
29	As pastoralist	6	2.6%
31	Tenancy	1	0.4%
32	Bought land in this area	5	2.1%
99		18	7.7%
Sysmiss		2954

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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