Measuring Living Standards within Cities, Dar es Salaam 2014-2015

Tanzania, 2014 - 2015

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Reference ID

TZA_2014_DAR-LSMS_v01_M

DOI

https://doi.org/10.48529/k5bm-4g51

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World Bank

Collection(s)

Living Standards Measurement Study (LSMS)

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Jan 10, 2019

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subjective well-being of household (s4_subpov2)

Data file: lsms_household

Overview

Valid: 2085

Invalid: 312

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 2999

End: 2999

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 5

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

How would you describe the situation of your household now, in terms of your standard of living?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	doing very well	5	0.2%
2	doing well (able to meet household needs by own efforts, and making some extra savings and investments (e.g. buying livestock or improving housing)	252	12.1%
3	doing just ok (able to meet household needs, but with nothing extra to save or invest)	1173	56.3%
4	struggling (managing to meet household needs, but only by depleting productive assets and/or receiving support from community or government)	630	30.2%
5	unable to meet household needs (highly dependent on support from community or government)	25	1.2%
Sysmiss		312

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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