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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If you have more than one SIM card, why? (M_4)
Data file: rias-2011-2012-household-v1
Overview
Valid:
393
Type:
Discrete
Start:
1776
End:
1989
Width:
214
Range:
-
Format:
character
Questions and instructions
Categories
| Value | Category | Cases | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | 7 |
1.8%
|
|
| 1 | 78 |
19.8%
|
|
| 1 is Leo, 1 is MTC. | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| 1 is for telecom, the other is for mtc. | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| 1 is pre paid, the other is post paid. | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| 1 is pre-paid, the other is postpaid | 2 |
0.5%
|
|
| 1 is prepaid and the other is postpaid | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Because I have 2 phones | 3 |
0.8%
|
|
| Cost saving/use the better rate/I compare the rates | 2 |
0.5%
|
|
| Depends on the benefits offered at the time | 2 |
0.5%
|
|
| For free SMS | 6 |
1.5%
|
|
| Given one as a present | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| I have a dual phone whereby I have a Mtc sim card and the other one with a Leo sim card so I can use either one of them when calling my friends using the same service provider | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| I have a dual phone which takes two cards one sim card is for social calls and the other one for business | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| I use one for telecom and one for tango and the other one for the mtc contract | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| In case one gets lost | 9 |
2.3%
|
|
| Like both MTN and Vodacom | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| One for internet and one for calls | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| One for mixit and one for calls and sms | 13 |
3.3%
|
|
| One for public Nd one for Privacy | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| One is for business and one for personal | 5 |
1.3%
|
|
| One sim card number is well known give my number to whom ever want to know my number and the other one is personal and switch it with the common one whenever I don't want to be bothered | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Use the same card as the person I am phoning/friends use different sim cards | 7 |
1.8%
|
|
| When the network is not good I change/helps me with network problems | 55 |
14%
|
|
| because of the special rates between Leo and MTC | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| because one is leo | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| business and family card | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| business and pleasure | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| business and private | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| different country's network | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| different provider | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| different providers | 4 |
1%
|
|
| for free SMS | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| for namibia which is for mtc and for Angola | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| for personal. reasons | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| for promotion reasons | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| for the purpose of the special tariffs | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| got them as gift | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| have Leo & Mtc , so I switch them when calling to the same network | 3 |
0.8%
|
|
| have Mtc , cell one reason being that it is cheap to call from my cell one card to Mtc | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| have Mtc , cell one reason being that it is cheap to call from my cell one card to Mtc network which is cheaper instead from Mtc to Mtc and also having switch card using it to call when I need to call to a landline | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| igot them as gifts | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| it is for business | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| misplaced my card and went and bord another one | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| my phone take up 2 sim cards | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| n/a | 131 |
33.3%
|
|
| no | 2 |
0.5%
|
|
| no particular reason | 2 |
0.5%
|
|
| none | 3 |
0.8%
|
|
| o | 4 |
1%
|
|
| one I use to contact my family and is for business | 2 |
0.5%
|
|
| one Namibia one angola | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| one business one private | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| one for 3G and one for mobile | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| one for Leo and one for mtc | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| one for internet and one for mobile | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| one for mtc and one for leo | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| one for tango and one for Leo | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| one is Mtc and use it in Namibia & the other one is Vodacom and use it when going abroad for business | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| one is contract one is tango | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| one is for tango special rates and the other one is for day and night rates | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| one is prepaid and the other one is contract | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| one is prepaid card and one is postpaid | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| one is private & the other one is for work | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| one mtc one leo | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| prepaid &contract | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| prepaid card and postpaid | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| private | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| private and family | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| reason being that one is prepaid and use it to call when my credit for the month is finished on the contract sim card | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| titian in on the cheapest network | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| to contact different people. | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| to use the cheapest sevices | 1 |
0.3%
|
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.