2020 FinScope Survey
Fourth Edition
Zambia, 2020
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2020 Finscope
data 7 July
2022_anonymised
B.1.11_S. Specify how (NAME) spent most of his/her day in the past month. (B1_11_S)
Data file: 2020 Finscope data 7 July 2022_anonymised
Overview
Valid:
829
Invalid:
0
Type:
Discrete
Width:
150
Range:
-
Format:
character
Questions and instructions
Categories
| Value | Category | Cases | |
|---|---|---|---|
| "she does nothing at the moment" | 1 |
0.1%
|
|
| "she does nothing" | 1 |
0.1%
|
|
| "she does piece works" | 1 |
0.1%
|
|
| @ ziale writing bar exams | 1 |
0.1%
|
|
| African herbalist | 1 |
0.1%
|
|
| BUSINESS LADY. | 1 |
0.1%
|
|
| Brewing Beer | 1 |
0.1%
|
|
| CASUAL WORK | 1 |
0.1%
|
|
| CHRONICALLY ILL | 1 |
0.1%
|
|
| Carpentry | 1 |
0.1%
|
|
| Charcoal burning | 3 |
0.4%
|
|
| DOES NOT WORK BECAUSE SHE IS OLD | 1 |
0.1%
|
|
| DOING BUSINESS | 1 |
0.1%
|
|
| DOING NOTHING | 1 |
0.1%
|
|
| Does household work | 1 |
0.1%
|
|
| FARM WORKER | 1 |
0.1%
|
|
| FULL TIME HOUSEHOLD CHORES | 1 |
0.1%
|
|
| FULL TIME STUDENT | 2 |
0.2%
|
|
| Farming | 1 |
0.1%
|
|
| Fishing | 11 |
1.3%
|
|
| Fishing for sale | 1 |
0.1%
|
|
| Full time house wife | 2 |
0.2%
|
|
| Gardening | 5 |
0.6%
|
|
| HAS NOT BEEN FEELING WELL. HAS BEEN BED RIDDEN. | 1 |
0.1%
|
|
| HE HAS BEEN SICK FOR FIVE YEARS NOW | 1 |
0.1%
|
|
| HE IS A PENSIONER | 1 |
0.1%
|
|
| HOMEMAKER | 3 |
0.4%
|
|
| HOMEMAKERR | 1 |
0.1%
|
|
| HOUSE WIFE | 1 |
0.1%
|
|
| He got laid off, looking for employement. | 1 |
0.1%
|
|
| Hes retired | 1 |
0.1%
|
|
| His been kept by the son. | 1 |
0.1%
|
|
| Home maker | 3 |
0.4%
|
|
| House Chores | 1 |
0.1%
|
|
| House Wife | 1 |
0.1%
|
|
| House chores | 1 |
0.1%
|
|
| House wife | 16 |
1.9%
|
|
| Housewife | 1 |
0.1%
|
|
| ITS OLD 76 OLD AND NOT DOING ANYTHING | 1 |
0.1%
|
|
| Incapacited cant work | 1 |
0.1%
|
|
| JUST HOME | 1 |
0.1%
|
|
| Just farming as well | 1 |
0.1%
|
|
| Just home | 1 |
0.1%
|
|
| Just sitted | 1 |
0.1%
|
|
| Just sitting at home | 1 |
0.1%
|
|
| Living in maid | 1 |
0.1%
|
|
| MAID | 1 |
0.1%
|
|
| Making Bricks | 1 |
0.1%
|
|
| Making Reed Mats | 1 |
0.1%
|
|
| NOT DOING ANYTHING (LAME) | 1 |
0.1%
|
|
| Not working due to Corona virus | 1 |
0.1%
|
|
| Nothing | 10 |
1.2%
|
|
| Nothing (been sick) | 1 |
0.1%
|
|
| Nothing just at home | 1 |
0.1%
|
|
| Nothing, she cant do anything | 1 |
0.1%
|
|
| Nursing baby hoping to get a job next year | 1 |
0.1%
|
|
| OLD AGE | 1 |
0.1%
|
|
| Old age she ia supported by her children but cooks | 1 |
0.1%
|
|
| Old just home | 1 |
0.1%
|
|
| PEACEWORK | 1 |
0.1%
|
|
| PEACEWORK ONLY | 1 |
0.1%
|
|
| PIECE WORK | 2 |
0.2%
|
|
| PIECE WORKS | 1 |
0.1%
|
|
| PIECEWORKING | 1 |
0.1%
|
|
| Piece Works | 2 |
0.2%
|
|
| Piecework | 4 |
0.5%
|
|
| RETIRED | 1 |
0.1%
|
|
| RETIRED FROM FORMAL EMPLOYMENT | 1 |
0.1%
|
|
| Retired | 2 |
0.2%
|
|
| Retired and doing own business | 1 |
0.1%
|
|
| SHE IS RETIRED | 1 |
0.1%
|
|
| STUDENT | 2 |
0.2%
|
|
| Selling Fish | 1 |
0.1%
|
|
| Selling bananas | 1 |
0.1%
|
|
| Selling charcoal | 1 |
0.1%
|
|
| Selling firewood and brick making | 1 |
0.1%
|
|
| Sick and unable to walk | 1 |
0.1%
|
|
| THE HEAD OF THE HOUSEHOLD CLINICALY SICK FOR LONG | 1 |
0.1%
|
|
| TOO OLD TO WORK | 3 |
0.4%
|
|
| TREE CUTTING | 1 |
0.1%
|
|
| Too old to work | 2 |
0.2%
|
|
| Touroling | 1 |
0.1%
|
|
| Ukutema and Farming | 1 |
0.1%
|
|
| VOLUNTEER WORK | 1 |
0.1%
|
|
| WORKS AS A MAID | 1 |
0.1%
|
|
| Was away in mbala | 1 |
0.1%
|
|
| aged | 1 |
0.1%
|
|
| am a brickleyer | 1 |
0.1%
|
|
| bed resting | 1 |
0.1%
|
|
| being home | 19 |
2.3%
|
|
| being home/church | 1 |
0.1%
|
|
| blind | 1 |
0.1%
|
|
| blind and cant not do anything | 1 |
0.1%
|
|
| brewing ilicity beer | 1 |
0.1%
|
|
| brick layer | 1 |
0.1%
|
|
| brickclarer | 1 |
0.1%
|
|
| bricklayer | 2 |
0.2%
|
|
| building houses | 1 |
0.1%
|
|
| building the house | 1 |
0.1%
|
|
| buliding his house | 1 |
0.1%
|
|
| business | 5 |
0.6%
|
|
| busy with church program | 1 |
0.1%
|
|
| cant work | 1 |
0.1%
|
|
| caretaker | 1 |
0.1%
|
|
| casal worker\\piece works | 1 |
0.1%
|
|
| casual worker | 1 |
0.1%
|
|
| casual works | 1 |
0.1%
|
|
| chacaol burner | 1 |
0.1%
|
|
| charcal burner | 1 |
0.1%
|
|
| charcol bunner | 2 |
0.2%
|
|
| charity/ cash social transfere | 1 |
0.1%
|
|
| chronical ill | 1 |
0.1%
|
|
| church | 2 |
0.2%
|
|
| clearing fields | 1 |
0.1%
|
|
| contract | 1 |
0.1%
|
|
| currently not doing anything( old age) | 1 |
0.1%
|
|
| cutting down the tress making charcoal | 1 |
0.1%
|
|
| cutting grass for sale | 1 |
0.1%
|
|
| cutting trees | 1 |
0.1%
|
|
| digging wells | 1 |
0.1%
|
|
| disabled | 1 |
0.1%
|
|
| disabled person | 1 |
0.1%
|
|
| do nothing | 3 |
0.4%
|
|
| does nothing | 1 |
0.1%
|
|
| does valgus and gardening | 1 |
0.1%
|
|
| doing business | 1 |
0.1%
|
|
| doing bussiness fisherman | 1 |
0.1%
|
|
| doing household chores | 1 |
0.1%
|
|
| doing household manager | 1 |
0.1%
|
|
| doing nothing | 4 |
0.5%
|
|
| doing piece of work | 1 |
0.1%
|
|
| doing piece work | 2 |
0.2%
|
|
| doing pieceworks | 2 |
0.2%
|
|
| drawing water from the stream for bulding | 1 |
0.1%
|
|
| driver | 1 |
0.1%
|
|
| dumb | 1 |
0.1%
|
|
| early retirement | 1 |
0.1%
|
|
| farm worker | 1 |
0.1%
|
|
| farmer | 2 |
0.2%
|
|
| farming | 22 |
2.7%
|
|
| farming and running my own trading business | 1 |
0.1%
|
|
| farming/ gardening | 1 |
0.1%
|
|
| fisher man | 3 |
0.4%
|
|
| fisherman | 12 |
1.4%
|
|
| fishing | 35 |
4.2%
|
|
| fishing and farming | 1 |
0.1%
|
|
| former head teacher | 1 |
0.1%
|
|
| full time house wife | 1 |
0.1%
|
|
| full time house | 1 |
0.1%
|
|
| full time house keeping | 1 |
0.1%
|
|
| full time house member | 1 |
0.1%
|
|
| full time house wife | 31 |
3.7%
|
|
| full time house wife. | 1 |
0.1%
|
|
| full time house wifey | 1 |
0.1%
|
|
| full time housewife | 1 |
0.1%
|
|
| fulltime a house wife | 1 |
0.1%
|
|
| fulltime house wife | 2 |
0.2%
|
|
| fulltime housewife | 5 |
0.6%
|
|
| fulltime wife | 1 |
0.1%
|
|
| gardening | 8 |
1%
|
|
| goes to church | 6 |
0.7%
|
|
| goes to church/home | 3 |
0.4%
|
|
| goes to farm | 2 |
0.2%
|
|
| goes to school | 2 |
0.2%
|
|
| goes to the farm | 1 |
0.1%
|
|
| growing rice for home use | 1 |
0.1%
|
|
| harvesting | 1 |
0.1%
|
|
| has been sick for past 12months suffering from TB | 1 |
0.1%
|
|
| he is a cobbler | 1 |
0.1%
|
|
| heavy duty mechanic and repairer | 1 |
0.1%
|
|
| helping the household do household chores | 1 |
0.1%
|
|
| helping to run business | 1 |
0.1%
|
|
| helping with house hold chores | 1 |
0.1%
|
|
| helps dad run shop | 1 |
0.1%
|
|
| home | 2 |
0.2%
|
|
| home can not walk | 1 |
0.1%
|
|
| home due to convid-19 | 1 |
0.1%
|
|
| home due to covud clisure of schools | 1 |
0.1%
|
|
| home maker | 3 |
0.4%
|
|
| home maket | 1 |
0.1%
|
|
| homemaker | 1 |
0.1%
|
|
| hospitalizing the elder brother. | 1 |
0.1%
|
|
| house chores | 1 |
0.1%
|
|
| house chose and going to church | 1 |
0.1%
|
|
| house member | 1 |
0.1%
|
|
| house wife | 78 |
9.4%
|
|
| house wife ( Home maker) | 1 |
0.1%
|
|
| house wife,healthy complications | 1 |
0.1%
|
|
| house work | 1 |
0.1%
|
|
| household chores | 8 |
1%
|
|
| household. chores | 1 |
0.1%
|
|
| housewife | 12 |
1.4%
|
|
| i do piece work | 1 |
0.1%
|
|
| i stay home since there is no emploment | 1 |
0.1%
|
|
| illnes | 2 |
0.2%
|
|
| in prayers | 1 |
0.1%
|
|
| just at home | 3 |
0.4%
|
|
| just at hpme waiting to go to college | 1 |
0.1%
|
|
| just completed grade 12 | 1 |
0.1%
|
|
| just home | 9 |
1.1%
|
|
| just seats at home | 1 |
0.1%
|
|
| just stay at home | 1 |
0.1%
|
|
| just stay home | 3 |
0.4%
|
|
| just stay home and help | 1 |
0.1%
|
|
| just wrote her grade nine | 1 |
0.1%
|
|
| justig at home and doing nothing | 1 |
0.1%
|
|
| leisure | 1 |
0.1%
|
|
| looking for a child | 1 |
0.1%
|
|
| looking for money to burn bricks | 1 |
0.1%
|
|
| maid | 1 |
0.1%
|
|
| makes baskets for selling | 1 |
0.1%
|
|
| making bricks | 1 |
0.1%
|
|
| making mats( impasa) | 1 |
0.1%
|
|
| making pan bricks | 1 |
0.1%
|
|
| marketier | 1 |
0.1%
|
|
| maternity | 1 |
0.1%
|
|
| never did anything she is a pantient | 1 |
0.1%
|
|
| none | 2 |
0.2%
|
|
| not allowed to work due condition | 1 |
0.1%
|
|
| not applicable | 1 |
0.1%
|
|
| not doing anything | 1 |
0.1%
|
|
| not in employement | 1 |
0.1%
|
|
| not working | 2 |
0.2%
|
|
| nothig | 1 |
0.1%
|
|
| nothing | 117 |
14.1%
|
|
| nothing also sick | 1 |
0.1%
|
|
| nothing just home | 1 |
0.1%
|
|
| nothing just stay home | 1 |
0.1%
|
|
| nothing just stayed home | 1 |
0.1%
|
|
| nothing just staying home | 2 |
0.2%
|
|
| nothing old age | 1 |
0.1%
|
|
| nothing old and un able to work | 1 |
0.1%
|
|
| nothing too old | 1 |
0.1%
|
|
| nothing, too old to work | 1 |
0.1%
|
|
| nursing her pregnancy | 1 |
0.1%
|
|
| nursing my mother | 1 |
0.1%
|
|
| old age | 4 |
0.5%
|
|
| old age (dependant) | 1 |
0.1%
|
|
| old age not able to do anything | 1 |
0.1%
|
|
| old aged | 1 |
0.1%
|
|
| old lady | 1 |
0.1%
|
|
| old to work | 1 |
0.1%
|
|
| on contract basis | 1 |
0.1%
|
|
| organising building materials | 1 |
0.1%
|
|
| participates in a savings group | 1 |
0.1%
|
|
| pastor | 1 |
0.1%
|
|
| pastoring | 1 |
0.1%
|
|
| peace works | 3 |
0.4%
|
|
| peice work | 1 |
0.1%
|
|
| piece of work | 1 |
0.1%
|
|
| piece work | 22 |
2.7%
|
|
| piece work at local clinic | 1 |
0.1%
|
|
| piece works | 7 |
0.8%
|
|
| piece works in other people's fields | 1 |
0.1%
|
|
| pieceworks | 1 |
0.1%
|
|
| plaiting and selling wigs | 1 |
0.1%
|
|
| preaching. | 1 |
0.1%
|
|
| reading books | 1 |
0.1%
|
|
| rentals | 2 |
0.2%
|
|
| resting | 2 |
0.2%
|
|
| retired | 6 |
0.7%
|
|
| retired from work | 1 |
0.1%
|
|
| retired miner | 1 |
0.1%
|
|
| retired teacher | 1 |
0.1%
|
|
| retiree teacher | 1 |
0.1%
|
|
| school | 3 |
0.4%
|
|
| schooling | 1 |
0.1%
|
|
| selling dry cassava tubers | 1 |
0.1%
|
|
| selling fish | 2 |
0.2%
|
|
| selling fritters | 1 |
0.1%
|
|
| selling maize | 1 |
0.1%
|
|
| selling sand | 1 |
0.1%
|
|
| selling timber | 1 |
0.1%
|
|
| sells chips | 1 |
0.1%
|
|
| sells kachaso | 1 |
0.1%
|
|
| sells tomatoes once in a while | 1 |
0.1%
|
|
| senoir citizen to weak to do things | 1 |
0.1%
|
|
| sewing | 1 |
0.1%
|
|
| she does nothing | 2 |
0.2%
|
|
| she was home sick | 1 |
0.1%
|
|
| she was sick the whole month | 1 |
0.1%
|
|
| sick | 1 |
0.1%
|
|
| small scale farming | 1 |
0.1%
|
|
| spice works | 1 |
0.1%
|
|
| sports | 1 |
0.1%
|
|
| stay at home mom | 1 |
0.1%
|
|
| stay at home mother | 1 |
0.1%
|
|
| staying | 3 |
0.4%
|
|
| staying at home | 1 |
0.1%
|
|
| staying away from work due to covid 19 outbreak | 1 |
0.1%
|
|
| staying home | 4 |
0.5%
|
|
| staying home she is sick | 1 |
0.1%
|
|
| stays at home | 2 |
0.2%
|
|
| stays at home doing nothing | 1 |
0.1%
|
|
| stays at home/can not walk | 1 |
0.1%
|
|
| stays home | 10 |
1.2%
|
|
| stays home/disabald | 1 |
0.1%
|
|
| stil at school | 1 |
0.1%
|
|
| still at school | 1 |
0.1%
|
|
| still schooling | 1 |
0.1%
|
|
| street vendor | 1 |
0.1%
|
|
| studyig at home | 1 |
0.1%
|
|
| studying at home | 1 |
0.1%
|
|
| teaching | 1 |
0.1%
|
|
| too old | 1 |
0.1%
|
|
| too old can't manage to do any work | 1 |
0.1%
|
|
| too old to do anything | 1 |
0.1%
|
|
| too old to work | 3 |
0.4%
|
|
| unemployed and just home been kept | 1 |
0.1%
|
|
| usually doing peace work | 1 |
0.1%
|
|
| voluntory workk | 1 |
0.1%
|
|
| waiting for covid to finiah might start school | 1 |
0.1%
|
|
| waiting for marriage | 1 |
0.1%
|
|
| waiting to enrol in school | 1 |
0.1%
|
|
| waiting to go back to school | 1 |
0.1%
|
|
| waiting to go to college | 2 |
0.2%
|
|
| waiting to sart school again | 1 |
0.1%
|
|
| want a business | 1 |
0.1%
|
|
| was and is sick | 1 |
0.1%
|
|
| was in and out of hospitalmafter accident | 1 |
0.1%
|
|
| was sick | 2 |
0.2%
|
|
| was sorting out funeral issues | 1 |
0.1%
|
|
| watching tv and baby sitting | 1 |
0.1%
|
|
| went for a holiday | 1 |
0.1%
|
|
| went to visit | 1 |
0.1%
|
|
| wife | 1 |
0.1%
|
|
| work as bus driver | 1 |
0.1%
|
|
| working as Senior Headman | 1 |
0.1%
|
|
| working with Mr. Mulenga (his dad) | 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.