2015 LIVING CONDITIONS MONITORING SURVEY
Seventh Edition
Zambia, 2015
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Reference ID
ZMB-ZSA-LCMS-2015-V1.0
Producer(s)
Central Statistical Office
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- Data files
- AggregateIncome_10_12_15_ANONYMIZE
-
Anthro 26_9_15
merged
Household
size_ANONYMIZE -
Child Health
and Nutrition
2015_ANONYMIZE - crop_costs_expenses_17Aug_ANONYMIZE
- CropPoultryLivestock_10_12_15_ANONYMIZE
- deaths_ANONYMIZE
- Expenditure_ANONYMIZE
- Expenditure_ANONYMIZE_1
-
HH Expenditure
Agregated
File_ANONYMIZE -
HH
File_ANONYMIZE - HouseholdAssets_Clean
- livestock_costs_expenses_06Sept_ANONYMIZE
-
Person
Record_ANONYMIZE -
Poverty
2015_ANONYMIZE - production_food_crops_06Sept_new_ANONYMIZE
-
Self Assesed
Poverty Part
2_ANONYMIZED
:Agricultural inputs are not available for buying in this area (SEC15_2_1)
Data file: HH File_ANONYMIZE
Overview
Valid:
8301
Invalid:
3950
Minimum:
1
Maximum:
28
Type:
Discrete
Decimal:
3
Width:
12
Range:
1 - 28
Format:
Numeric
Questions and instructions
Categories
| Value | Category | Cases | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cannot afford/lack of agricultural inputs | 393 |
4.7%
|
| 2 | Agricultural inputs are not available for buying in this a | 219 |
2.6%
|
| 3 | Lack of agricultural inputs due to other reasons | 257 |
3.1%
|
| 4 | Low agricultural production | 459 |
5.5%
|
| 5 | drought | 291 |
3.5%
|
| 6 | floods | 26 |
0.3%
|
| 7 | Lack of adequate land | 235 |
2.8%
|
| 8 | Low prices for their agricultural produce | 245 |
3%
|
| 9 | Lack of market/buyers for the household agricultural produ | 116 |
1.4%
|
| 10 | Lack of cattle/oxen | 373 |
4.5%
|
| 11 | Death of cattle due to diseases | 78 |
0.9%
|
| 12 | Lack of capital (money) to start/expand agricultural output | 610 |
7.3%
|
| 13 | Lack of capital (money) to diversify into cash crops | 299 |
3.6%
|
| 14 | Lack of credit facilities to start agricultural production o | 211 |
2.5%
|
| 15 | Lack of capital (money) to start own business or to expand | 824 |
9.9%
|
| 16 | Lack of credit facilities to start business or to expand | 338 |
4.1%
|
| 17 | Lack of employment opportunities/cannot find a job | 676 |
8.1%
|
| 18 | Salary/ wage too low | 454 |
5.5%
|
| 19 | Pension payment too low | 38 |
0.5%
|
| 20 | Retrenchment/redundancy | 14 |
0.2%
|
| 21 | Prices of commodities too high | 877 |
10.6%
|
| 22 | Hard economic times/economic decline of our country | 738 |
8.9%
|
| 23 | Business not doing well | 240 |
2.9%
|
| 24 | Too much competition | 97 |
1.2%
|
| 25 | Due to disability | 17 |
0.2%
|
| 26 | Death of bread winner | 89 |
1.1%
|
| 27 | Debts | 20 |
0.2%
|
| 28 | Other reasons | 67 |
0.8%
|
| Sysmiss | 3950 |
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.