2015 LIVING CONDITIONS MONITORING SURVEY
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Zambia, 2015
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Specify what do you think has led your household to be in poverty. (SEC15_2S)
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| Value | Category | Cases | |
|---|---|---|---|
| AGETTING OLD EACH DAY | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Accommodation is expensive | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Age Too old | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Aged spaus | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Animal distructions. Animals destroying crops in the fields | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Animals eat our crops | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Because he did mot complete his Education | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Because her husband can't afford to take care of her and the family | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Because of the divorce | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Being a single mother | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Can not afford everything | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Can't cultivate due to old age | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Cant afford every thing alone | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Cant meet the demands | 2 |
0.7%
|
|
| Cant meet the demands for a normal living | 2 |
0.7%
|
|
| Children lacking discipline steal maize from her | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Dam | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Divorce | 3 |
1%
|
|
| Do not enough income | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Does not have a wife | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Due to age am now getting old and less power to do hard work like faming | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Due to divorce | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Due to illness | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Due to old age as a result she's failing to live a better life | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Due to old age, the old lady cannot do any job and she depends on well wishers and the church. | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Due to sickness of the head of house | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Education levels too low | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Electricity | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Elephants destroy our crops | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Elephants destroying our crops | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Family been unfair in sharing family resources | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Frequent sickness | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Getting old. | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| God allowed it to be so | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| God's design | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| God's design for his life | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Got married | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| HE DOESNT HAVE A VEHICLE | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Hard conditions by banks when you want to get a loan | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Has just made the union of msrriage | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Have grown old and have lost the energy to do hard works. | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Husband is a polygamist hence he pays little attention to the family's growth and it's development | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Husband spend more money on girlfriends | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| I cant meet the demands | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| I don't know.God is the provider | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| IF SHE HAS A GOT TO RAISE LIFE CAN CHANGE | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| IRRESPONSIBLE PARENT | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Illness | 2 |
0.7%
|
|
| Illnesses | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Just want to be in the same condition | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Lack of water has led to us being poor | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Lack of Fishing Materials | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Lack of accommodation | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Lack of accomodation | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Lack of any help from anywhere | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Lack of enough money to sustain a better living | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Lack of enough money to sustaine our living | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Lack of financial resources to over come problem comes | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Lack of help from anywhere | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Lack of own accomodation | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Lack of transport | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Lacking alot of enssencial commodities | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Lavk of household assets | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Less man power due to old age | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Limited sources of funds | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Loss of property to the husband | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Lost property in an inferno | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Migrated from Kawambwa | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| NEEDS A BICYCLE | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Nature | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Need to upgrade myself as a constructor inorder for me to make more money in my business | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| No house | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| No Bohore for water | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| No enough income | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| No enough man power to assist as the Husband is sick | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| No enough money to meet the demands | 2 |
0.7%
|
|
| No help from anywhere | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| No husband | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| No husband to help out | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| No husband to look up to | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| No husband to support the family | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| No inheritance | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| No other means of finding money | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| No support from relatives | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| No tractor | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Not enough man power | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Not to health due to age of the head of the house hold | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| OLD AGE | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Old age | 2 |
0.7%
|
|
| Old age (can't work very hard) | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Old age is another contributing factor | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Old age is another factor.because productivity has reduced | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Old age. | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Poor health | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Poor soils | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Responsibility of being the bread winner | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| SICKNESS | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| She can not afford every thing alone | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| She is a Widower cannot afford enough food and keeping father less Childrens at home, hence, needs help in terms of money. | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| THE HUSBAND DRINKS TOO MUCH | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| TOO MUCH BEER DRINKING. NOT HARD WORKING | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Tax rates are too high | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| The house got burnt and we lost alotof things | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| The household head where he was working for the first time he went for some months without pay, thus changing company | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Too many responsibilities | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Too much expenses for the family | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Too old | 2 |
0.7%
|
|
| Too old and illnesses. | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Too old and no longer active as in the past | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Too old to Work | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Too old to be working | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Too old to do anything | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Too old to find work to do | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Too old to work | 2 |
0.7%
|
|
| Too old to work and he has no children who are in employment | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Very poor due to marriage dispute | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| We dont meet the demands | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Wild animal destruction of crops | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Working conditions should improve | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| aging | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| and some time back elephants would attack butala were the harvest is store | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| bankrupcy | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| because I cultivate alone | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| because I live in the village | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| because of age | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| because of people not being proactive | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| because parents divorced | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| because the head of the house has been sick | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| because they havent yet harvested what they cultivated in 2014 2015 farming season. | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| can not work due to old age | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| can't afford all the needs. | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| can't afford to buy required foods for my condition | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| can't afford to provide themselves with food | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| can't wait as required due to being too old | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| cannot the necessary basic needs | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| cant Arford to educate school going children | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| cant farm due to game animals | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| cigarettes and alcohol abuse | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| clothing | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| continous illness of the head of House hold (General body Pains) | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| did not complete school | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| distruction of crops by animals | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| divorce | 2 |
0.7%
|
|
| divorce with the husband and collapse of the house | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| divorce. | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| do not have enough money to buy food | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| does not have anyone to help her out at home | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| does not have anyone to help him | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| does not have enough strength to work very hard | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| does not have money frequently | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| don't get satisfied with their needs in the house | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| don't have a house | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| don't have all needs | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| don't manage food for need | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| dont have own accomodation | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| due to sicknesses | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| during rain season chances of finding where work opportunities are slim or not there | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| failing to have adquate needs in a month | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| family cases passed on to my household | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| food not enough and money too little | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| growing old | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| has been sick for the past feel years so the head of household is struggling to do well | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| has not receiv3d graduity after the contract ended | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| have a a lot of orphans in the house to look after. | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| have one supporter | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| health problems | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| house | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| house is too small | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| husband not sportive | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| ilitracy | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| illness | 9 |
3%
|
|
| illness in the faamily | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| illness of the head of household | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| illness-stroke | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| illnesses | 3 |
1%
|
|
| illnesses has caused poverty | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| its not yet time | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| just started a housahold | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| lack of a husband | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| lack of aid to old people...family conflicts | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| lack of education. | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| lack of financial resources | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| lack of financial support | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| lack of food | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| lack of good shelter | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| lack of income for buying goods | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| lack of knowledge on how to do business | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| lack of manpower | 2 |
0.7%
|
|
| lack of market to sell other crops other than maize | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| lack of security to safeguard business | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| land wrangles. we cant cultivate because we are scared they might chase us any time soon. | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| leg problem( health) | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| less fishing nets | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| low circulation of money | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| main job does not give room to perform second job | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| marriage conflicts | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| misunderstandings within the family/fightings | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| money to buy food to eat | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| need a car | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| need electricity to store food in fridges and also to cook on the stove. | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| negligence from leaders responsible | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| no helping hands:own sons or daughters | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| no husband | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| no inheritance from parents | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| no member of parliament to rep | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| no money | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| no money to buy a hiuse ir take children to the university | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| no one to help around | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| no own accomodation | 2 |
0.7%
|
|
| no permanent place to stay | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| no plot of their own | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| no where to stay | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| not able to do work due healthy problem | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| not able to satisfy there needs | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| not applicable | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| not doing well occording to there level | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| not feeling well hiv | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| not having a tent | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| not having enough money | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| not poor | 2 |
0.7%
|
|
| old age | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| old age | 11 |
3.6%
|
|
| old age and heavy burden of orphans | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| old age.unable to do much work | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| olf can't work harder | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| parents negligence | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| poor accomodation | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| poor because parents were poor. no one to help another | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| poor water for drinking | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| pupils and students | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| rainfall partern not good | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| rented accomodation | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| says was born poor and married a poor man | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| separation of parents | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| she is a single parent, the husband is mad | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| she z too old to work | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| sickness | 2 |
0.7%
|
|
| sickness ( lack of strength in the joints and severe leg pains) | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| sickness and death of parent | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| sickness of household head | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| sickness/Illnesses | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| sicknesses | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| sicknesses and did not go to school | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| spouse divorced | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| spouse not around | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| started savings late | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| suffering from stroke | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| the house is too small for the family | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| the house was on fire | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| the living condition for this household is moderately poor | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| theft | 2 |
0.7%
|
|
| there are managing on other living standards | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| to old to work | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| too old and usually sick to work | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| too old to be able to provide food for the family | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| too old to be economic active | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| too old to farm | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| too old to work | 7 |
2.3%
|
|
| too old to work and sick | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| too relaxed not to put in much effort to improve on the lively hood | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| too weak to work | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| was born poor and didnt inherit anything from patents. | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| water were cattle drink from its very far | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| we have almost everything but think we luck coperation within family to improve ourselves | 1 |
0.3%
|
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.