Protecting Early Childhood Development in Malawi Impact Evaluation Survey 2013, Midline
Malawi, 2013
Get Microdata
Reference ID
MWI_2013_PECDIE-ML_v01_M
Producer(s)
Michelle Neuman, Berk Ozler, Lia Fernald
Metadata
Created on
Mar 07, 2019
Last modified
Mar 07, 2019
Page views
87535
Downloads
3689
response (e4_6)
Data file: r2.motherguardian
Overview
Valid:
1102
Invalid:
1034
Type:
Discrete
Decimal:
0
Start:
390
End:
391
Width:
2
Range:
-9 - 26
Format:
Numeric
Questions and instructions
Question pretext
Over the past 12 months, was your household severely affected negatively (economically) by any of the following events?
Literal question
Large rise in price of food, or unavailability of food.
What was the MOST IMPORTANT thing you did in response to this shock to try to regain your former welfare level?
What was the MOST IMPORTANT thing you did in response to this shock to try to regain your former welfare level?
Categories
| Value | Category | Cases | |
|---|---|---|---|
| -9 | missing | 5 |
0.5%
|
| -8 | dont know | 0 |
0%
|
| -7 | na | 0 |
0%
|
| 1 | spend cash savings | 140 |
12.7%
|
| 2 | borrowed money | 39 |
3.5%
|
| 3 | reduced consumption/expenditures | 167 |
15.2%
|
| 4 | sold assets/farmland/animal/some crops | 38 |
3.4%
|
| 5 | rented out farmland | 2 |
0.2%
|
| 6 | worked more/other hh member worked more (includes piece work | 379 |
34.4%
|
| 7 | went elsewhere to find work for more than a month | 17 |
1.5%
|
| 8 | started a new business | 29 |
2.6%
|
| 9 | removed children from school to work | 2 |
0.2%
|
| 10 | sent children to live with relatives | 2 |
0.2%
|
| 11 | received help from relatives/another household | 40 |
3.6%
|
| 12 | received help from ngo/government/church | 65 |
5.9%
|
| 13 | reported to police/headman/village chief | 1 |
0.1%
|
| 14 | prayer-spiritual effort, sacrifices, consulted diviner | 0 |
0%
|
| 15 | went to hospital (govt, pvt, cham) | 1 |
0.1%
|
| 16 | bought medicine | 0 |
0%
|
| 17 | applied manure or fertilizers | 4 |
0.4%
|
| 18 | planted seasonal crops | 63 |
5.7%
|
| 19 | bought or used pesticides or insectcides | 0 |
0%
|
| 20 | used natural insectcides or traditional pestcides | 0 |
0%
|
| 21 | irrigation farming | 25 |
2.3%
|
| 22 | walk more instead of taking bus or taxi | 0 |
0%
|
| 23 | travelled less/go to fewer places than required using transp | 0 |
0%
|
| 24 | switched to using torches, paraffin or other type of fuel | 1 |
0.1%
|
| 25 | did not do anything | 69 |
6.3%
|
| 26 | other specify | 13 |
1.2%
|
| Sysmiss | 1034 |
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.