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
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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.