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afrobarometer

Afrobarometer South Africa 2000

South Africa, 2000
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Reference ID
ZAF_2000_AFB-SA_v01_M
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Robert Mattes, Yul Derek Davids, Cherrel Africa
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Afrobarometer
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    SA 2000

how do you obtain food (q5c)

Data file: Afrobarometer SA 2000

Overview

Valid: 0
Invalid: 0
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Width: 8
Range: 1 - 99
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
q5c. Describe how you currently obtain the food you and your family eat each month
Categories
Value Category
1 pay for it (cash or kind)
2 work for it
3 doing piece work
4 vending
5 crocheting
6 dressmaking
7 buy and sell chicken
8 own crops/livestock
9 grow maize
10 farming
11 rear chickens
12 neighbours assist
13 from friends and 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 and 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 barbers shop
65 buying
66 buying to supplement home produce
67 collecting from forest
68 dont know
69 work for food
70 go back to the land
71 god provides
72 from renting houses
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
96 no further reponse
98 refused
99 missing
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.

Description

Definition
Method by which the family obtain food to eat each month
Universe
The universe for this question is citizens of South Africa 18 years of age or older
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