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Household and Small Business ICT Access and Usage Survey 2011-2012

Botswana, Cameroon, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Rwanda, Tunisia, Tanzania, Uganda, South Africa, 2011 - 2012
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AFR_2011_RIAS_v01_M
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other please specify: Why don't you have a mobile phone? (NM_7)

Data file: rias-2011-2012-household-v1

Overview

Valid: 193
Type: Discrete
Start: 2299
End: 2542
Width: 244
Range: -
Format: character

Questions and instructions

Categories
Value Category Cases
. 68
35.2%
0 8
4.1%
1 9
4.7%
2 8
4.1%
3 11
5.7%
4 5
2.6%
5 1
0.5%
I am too young to have a phone 1
0.5%
I give it to my daughter 1
0.5%
Mobile phone that I had has been Borrowed by Brother who went to work out of town , so at the moment I only have a sim card , so I also borrow someone's phone to insert my card if I need to call 1
0.5%
Need to focus on my studies mobile phone is a distraction to my school work 1
0.5%
No need to own a mobile because there are enough mobile phones at home if I want to call, so by buying a mobile phone will be unnecessary and will contribute to the financial constraints that we're facing at home already , so rather use the sav 1
0.5%
Other 5
2.6%
Parents feel that I'm too young to own a mobile phone 1
0.5%
Parents think that I'm too young to own a mobile phone and need to focus on my studies instead 1
0.5%
Sold it 4
2.1%
Yes 12
6.2%
also prefer to use the phone at home because it's no use owning a phone because end up stolen or being mugged by thieves 1
0.5%
did not buy one yet 1
0.5%
don't need one because share mobile phone with spouse when I need to call 1
0.5%
family feels that it's no use to own a mobile phone because can still call from a family members phone when need arises to call 1
0.5%
family has the impression that I'm still young to own one even if they had to offer to buy me one 1
0.5%
family members that I need to call are abroad and will be very expensive to use mobile phone for international calls 1
0.5%
give it to my son who goes to school in autjo 1
0.5%
hardly call so use family members mobile phone when I need to call 1
0.5%
it got burned out by candle 1
0.5%
just not interested 2
1%
mobile phone is currently not important at the moment so the little money that I get from my small business use it to feed my baby and contribute to the household needs , but still planning and saving up from the little which is left to lay by 1
0.5%
my mobile phone has been confiscated by my parents because I did very week in my 1st term Exam and they are afraid that I might fail my final year exams ,so they want me to focus on my studies instead 2
1%
my mobile phone has been confiscated by my parents because it is a distraction because it is interfering with my studies 1
0.5%
n/a 18
9.3%
never had 1 in her life. 1
0.5%
not interest Ed 1
0.5%
o 1
0.5%
old and blind to own a mobile phone 1
0.5%
poor sight vision so will be too difficult to view what is on the mobile phone screen 1
0.5%
prefer to use Grandson's mobile phone because at my age I tend to miss place things ,so I'm afraid that it might get lost 1
0.5%
prefer to use house hold telephone. 1
0.5%
prefer to use public phone because it is cheaper 1
0.5%
prefer to use the house hold telephone. 1
0.5%
prefer to use the household phone instead of recharging a mobile phone for airtime 2
1%
still to buy mobile phones. 1
0.5%
to old those things 1
0.5%
took in my mobile phone for repair recently just waiting for month end to collect it 1
0.5%
unemployed so can't afford mobile phone 1
0.5%
use fixed line phone 1
0.5%
use fixed line phone to call 1
0.5%
use household fixed line phone to call and too old to carry a mobile phone because it's too risky in case I get mugged by the youth 1
0.5%
use spouse mobile phone 1
0.5%
uses a fixed line telephone 1
0.5%
when I need to call put my sim card in some ones mobile phone 1
0.5%
would like to own one but no one is willing to buy for me one, my mother belief that I have to look for a job to be able to buy it myself 1
0.5%
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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