Afrobarometer Survey 1 1999-2000, Merged 7 Country
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Namibia, South Africa, Zambia, Zimbabwe, 1999 - 2000
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AFR_1999_AFB-7_v01_M
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Institute for Democracy in South Africa (IDASA), Michigan State University (MSU), Ghana Centre for Democratic Development (CDD-Ghana)
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Afrobarometer 7
Country
1999-2000
how do you currently obtain food? (q5b)
Data file: Afrobarometer 7 Country 1999-2000
Overview
Valid:
0
Invalid:
0
Type:
Discrete
Decimal:
0
Width:
8
Range:
0 - 999
Format:
Numeric
Questions and instructions
Categories
| Value | Category |
|---|---|
| 1 | pay for it (cash/kind) |
| 2 | work for it |
| 3 | doing piece work |
| 4 | vending |
| 5 | crocheting |
| 6 | dressmaking |
| 7 | buy & sell chicken |
| 8 | own crops/livestock |
| 9 | grow maize |
| 10 | farming |
| 11 | rear chickens |
| 12 | neighbours assist |
| 13 | from friends & family |
| 14 | relatives provides |
| 15 | husband provides |
| 16 | friends |
| 17 | from my village |
| 18 | govt food programme |
| 19 | govt assistance |
| 20 | pensioner |
| 21 | traditional leader |
| 22 | know someone who helps me get govt assistance |
| 23 | favour/bribe govt official |
| 24 | pretend to be eligible for govt assistance |
| 25 | steal it |
| 26 | ask anyone i can |
| 27 | beg for it |
| 28 | beg from relatives & friends |
| 29 | sit at home |
| 30 | breadwinner does not work |
| 31 | boyfriend provides |
| 32 | parents provide |
| 33 | from hand to mouth |
| 34 | african evangelist church |
| 35 | social workers |
| 36 | it will never happen |
| 37 | get credit |
| 38 | buy on account |
| 39 | find food somewhere |
| 40 | trade/barter/exchange |
| 41 | gold panning |
| 42 | fishing |
| 43 | building |
| 44 | cross-border training |
| 45 | commercial sex |
| 46 | beer brewing |
| 47 | business (small-scale) |
| 48 | business (medium to large) |
| 49 | selling livestock/cattle |
| 50 | sell my belongings |
| 51 | provided by employer |
| 52 | casual work |
| 53 | hunting bush animals |
| 54 | borrow foodstuff |
| 55 | looking for employment |
| 56 | buying maize husks |
| 57 | complain to govt officials |
| 58 | govt will distribute free food |
| 59 | praying to god |
| 60 | nothing i can do |
| 61 | local community/co-operative |
| 62 | other |
| 63 | ineligible for govt assistance |
| 64 | work in barber's shop |
| 65 | buying |
| 66 | buying to supplement home produce |
| 67 | collecting from forest |
| 68 | don't know |
| 69 | food for work |
| 70 | go back to the land |
| 71 | god provides |
| 72 | from renting house |
| 73 | selling goods |
| 74 | struggling (retrenchment) |
| 75 | sleep/go without food |
| 76 | selling illegal brew |
| 77 | get food from church |
| 78 | wife provides |
| 79 | work in tanzanian farms |
| 80 | get it from well-wishers |
| 81 | would die |
| 84 | sale of food |
| 85 | stokfele/borrowing |
| 86 | mine remittances |
| 87 | sharecropping |
| 88 | self-employment |
| 89 | gardening |
| 95 | sale of brooms |
| 96 | no further response |
| 97 | member of family employed |
| 98 | refused |
| 99 | missing |
| 100 | tree selling |
| 101 | selling of snuff |
| 102 | hair dresser/salon |
| 103 | domestic work |
| 104 | transport for others |
| 105 | would die |
| 106 | can go back home |
| 107 | teacher |
| 108 | factory work - rsa |
| 109 | mine work |
| 110 | street vendor |
| 111 | milk cow |
| 112 | cut and sell stone |
| 113 | gifts |
| 114 | sale of wood |
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.