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Afrobarometer Survey 2002-2004, Merged Round 2 Data (16 Countries)

Botswana, Cabo Verde, Ghana, Kenya, Lesotho, Mali, Mozambique, Malawi, Namibia, Nigeria, Senegal, Tanzania, Uganda, South Africa, Zambia, Zimbabwe, 2002 - 2004
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Reference ID
AFR_2004_AFB-MR2_v01_M
Producer(s)
Institute for Democracy in South Africa (IDASA), Michigan State University (MSU), Ghana Centre for Democratic Development (CDD-Ghana)
Collection(s)
Afrobarometer Fragility, Conflict and Violence
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Jan 27, 2012
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  • merged_r2_data.dta

Q5c. Third meaning of "poor" (q5c)

Data file: merged_r2_data.dta

Overview

Valid: 23197
Invalid: 1104
Minimum: -1
Maximum: 996
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 94
End: 96
Width: 3
Range: -1 - 996
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Categories
Value Category Cases
-1 Missing data 27
0.1%
0 Nothing 0
0%
1 Lack of food 1627
7%
2 Lack of shelter 2027
8.7%
3 Lack of clothing 1492
6.4%
4 Lack of money 1660
7.2%
5 Low living standards 630
2.7%
6 Lack of social amenities 142
0.6%
7 Lack of education/knowledge 556
2.4%
8 Lack of employment/jobs 1083
4.7%
9 Low levels of health 616
2.7%
10 Powerlessness 35
0.2%
11 Living in substandard neighborhood 48
0.2%
12 Any life-threatening situation 11
0%
13 No child/spouse/unable to marry a wife 158
0.7%
14 Comparison between self and others, inability to meet expect 37
0.2%
15 Lack of entertainment (newspaper,TV,Radio,Video) 4
0%
16 Psychological status/mental health 68
0.3%
17 Exploitive labor (e.g. child labor, prostitution, etc) 4
0%
18 Lack of agricultural inputs (land/fertilizers/seeds) 174
0.8%
19 Race (associates black with poverty) 1
0%
20 Laziness/person who won't work 123
0.5%
21 Lack of family/social support network 259
1.1%
22 Inability to meet obligations/family responsibilities 262
1.1%
23 Beggar/destitute 78
0.3%
24 Unreligious 11
0%
25 A farmer 7
0%
26 Poverty (undifferentiated/unspecified) 81
0.3%
27 No water 132
0.6%
28 No electricity 37
0.2%
29 No cattle or livestock 301
1.3%
30 No land 360
1.6%
31 No vehicle/car 63
0.3%
32 In debt 12
0.1%
33 To have too many children to support 33
0.1%
34 To be a single parent 7
0%
35 To be old/a pensioner 21
0.1%
36 To depend on or revert to crime 14
0.1%
37 To only live for today/live day-to-day/no future planning 40
0.2%
38 To depend on domestic work/manual labor 11
0%
39 To have to rely on others for help 140
0.6%
40 Low social status/no community standing 20
0.1%
41 Street children/living on the street 27
0.1%
42 To be an alcoholic or drug addict 9
0%
43 Unable to contribute to the country 12
0.1%
49 Drought/lack of rain 27
0.1%
50 Lack of everything/not having anything 171
0.7%
51 Handicapped 176
0.8%
52 Racism/Suffering from discrimination 6
0%
53 Without love or affection 10
0%
54 To be sad, miserable, poor of spirit 37
0.2%
55 To have lots of problems or difficulties 23
0.1%
56 Lack of opportunities or possibilities 18
0.1%
57 Lack of common sense, foolish, or poor planning 27
0.1%
58 A natural condition/something one is born to 2
0%
59 A national problem/caused by government or its policy 15
0.1%
60 Lack of assets/property/wealth 85
0.4%
61 Lack of school fees 255
1.1%
62 Insecurity, lack of peace 30
0.1%
63 Being rural 0
0%
64 Income below a certain level 6
0%
65 Can't afford luxuries 15
0.1%
81 Orphan/have no parents 45
0.2%
162 Rural women 3
0%
165 Lack of equipment for production 12
0.1%
169 Chetif 11
0%
170 Having misfortune, bad luck 6
0%
180 Lack of Firewood 1
0%
181 Lack of Businesses/Markets 16
0.1%
182 Poor Agric 4
0%
995 Other 297
1.3%
996 No further answer 9439
40.7%
998 Refused to answer 0
0%
999 Don't know 0
0%
Sysmiss 1104
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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