High-Frequency Phone Survey 2020-2024

Malawi, 2020 - 2024

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Reference ID

MWI_2020-2024_HFPS_v20_M

DOI

https://doi.org/10.48529/s2n6-9f47

Producer(s)

Malawi National Statistical Office (NSO)

Collection(s)

High-Frequency Phone Surveys Living Standards Measurement Study (LSMS)

Metadata

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Aug 18, 2020

Last modified

Jul 11, 2024

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Other reason for not working last week (s6q1c_os)

Data file: sect6a_employment2_r12

Overview

Valid: 1533

Invalid: -

Type: Discrete

Start: 60

End: 122

Width: 63

Range: -

Format: character

Questions and instructions

Literal question

1c. Why did you not work last week?
- Other, specify

Categories

Value	Cases
	1505	98.2%
awaiting harvest	1	0.1%
Could not buy any inputs for business	1	0.1%
did not find any ganyu last week	1	0.1%
did nothing	1	0.1%
didn't find any customer	1	0.1%
due to cold weather	1	0.1%
had other things to do	1	0.1%
haven't found any ganyu yet	1	0.1%
haven't found any GANYU yet	1	0.1%
haven't found job yet	1	0.1%
is on break due to forestry restrictions on burning of charcoal	1	0.1%
lack enough capital	1	0.1%
lack of capital	2	0.1%
lack of inputs	1	0.1%
no capital	2	0.1%
no consultation done	1	0.1%
no customer to work with	1	0.1%
no money to buy business stuff	1	0.1%
no work to do	1	0.1%
resting	1	0.1%
Searching for markets	1	0.1%
stopped doing business	1	0.1%
tools were broken	1	0.1%
very expensive to purchase input	1	0.1%
was busy	1	0.1%
was trying to secure selling papers	1	0.1%

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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