2015 LIVING CONDITIONS MONITORING SURVEY
Seventh Edition
Zambia, 2015
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ZMB-ZSA-LCMS-2015-V1.0
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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
Specify why you think your household is worse off. (SEC15_4S)
Data file: HH File_ANONYMIZE
Overview
Valid:
123
Type:
Discrete
Width:
255
Range:
-
Format:
character
Questions and instructions
Categories
| Value | Category | Cases | |
|---|---|---|---|
| A LOT OF GRAND CHILDREN AY HOMEWHEN SHE IS NOT CAPABLE OF KEEPING THEM | 1 |
0.8%
|
|
| Alot of money is spent on education | 1 |
0.8%
|
|
| Animals distroyed mos parts of the field. | 1 |
0.8%
|
|
| Because am alone all my children died | 1 |
0.8%
|
|
| Because of the fire that burnt the house | 1 |
0.8%
|
|
| Can't work effectively due to old age. | 1 |
0.8%
|
|
| Cost of Marriage | 1 |
0.8%
|
|
| Due to health decline | 1 |
0.8%
|
|
| Due to illness of the household head | 1 |
0.8%
|
|
| Due to old age, am growing old every year and have power to do any kind of work. | 1 |
0.8%
|
|
| GETTING OLD | 1 |
0.8%
|
|
| Growing Old | 1 |
0.8%
|
|
| He was sick and couldn't farm | 1 |
0.8%
|
|
| I'm old and I have no one to help me | 1 |
0.8%
|
|
| Illnes of head of household | 1 |
0.8%
|
|
| Illness | 2 |
1.6%
|
|
| Lack of money to meet demands | 1 |
0.8%
|
|
| Lack of family care | 1 |
0.8%
|
|
| Limited resources to support the household | 1 |
0.8%
|
|
| Lost household goods due to fire | 1 |
0.8%
|
|
| Marriage dispute | 1 |
0.8%
|
|
| Migration | 1 |
0.8%
|
|
| More money goes to students and Pupils | 1 |
0.8%
|
|
| No husband to help in nessecities | 1 |
0.8%
|
|
| No support from relatives | 1 |
0.8%
|
|
| Old age | 3 |
2.4%
|
|
| Poor health of household head | 1 |
0.8%
|
|
| Relocation | 1 |
0.8%
|
|
| SICKNESS | 1 |
0.8%
|
|
| Separation between me and my husband | 1 |
0.8%
|
|
| Sick | 1 |
0.8%
|
|
| Sickness/Illnesses | 1 |
0.8%
|
|
| TOO OLD TO WORK | 1 |
0.8%
|
|
| The contineous illness for the head | 1 |
0.8%
|
|
| The head has been sick for some time , hence the house hold depends onn remittance | 1 |
0.8%
|
|
| The husband has married another woman. | 1 |
0.8%
|
|
| The husband has married other wife | 1 |
0.8%
|
|
| The husband has run away from home | 1 |
0.8%
|
|
| The new babies | 1 |
0.8%
|
|
| There has been no salary ever since I came from Kaoma | 1 |
0.8%
|
|
| They buy cotton at a cheap price | 1 |
0.8%
|
|
| Too many responsibility | 1 |
0.8%
|
|
| Transport is a challenge to and from where the inputs are found | 1 |
0.8%
|
|
| Very old | 1 |
0.8%
|
|
| abandoned by head of household i.e husband | 1 |
0.8%
|
|
| additional of house member | 1 |
0.8%
|
|
| because of lack of clean water to drink | 1 |
0.8%
|
|
| because of the sickness | 1 |
0.8%
|
|
| because she was married by then | 1 |
0.8%
|
|
| can not look after the children | 1 |
0.8%
|
|
| can't farm due to old age | 1 |
0.8%
|
|
| cannot manage to do work | 1 |
0.8%
|
|
| conflict in marriage | 1 |
0.8%
|
|
| could not do anything because of the pregnancy | 1 |
0.8%
|
|
| dont have own accomodation | 1 |
0.8%
|
|
| due to bread winners sickness | 1 |
0.8%
|
|
| due to change of residence | 1 |
0.8%
|
|
| due to sickness | 1 |
0.8%
|
|
| extended families | 1 |
0.8%
|
|
| got ill | 1 |
0.8%
|
|
| growing old | 1 |
0.8%
|
|
| grown older | 1 |
0.8%
|
|
| have not been investing in business | 1 |
0.8%
|
|
| head of house has a prolonged illness | 1 |
0.8%
|
|
| her busness went down | 1 |
0.8%
|
|
| husband jailed | 1 |
0.8%
|
|
| illness | 10 |
8.1%
|
|
| illness in the household | 1 |
0.8%
|
|
| illness of head of Household | 1 |
0.8%
|
|
| illness of head of house | 1 |
0.8%
|
|
| illnesses | 2 |
1.6%
|
|
| lack of resources and marital disputes | 1 |
0.8%
|
|
| lack of strength in the joints and severe leg pains | 1 |
0.8%
|
|
| last year had enough maize. we did not need to buy as compared to this year were we have to buy. | 1 |
0.8%
|
|
| less support from relatives | 1 |
0.8%
|
|
| loan repayment | 1 |
0.8%
|
|
| need a bolehole | 1 |
0.8%
|
|
| need our help but cant afford to help | 1 |
0.8%
|
|
| no veterinary services | 1 |
0.8%
|
|
| not having enough food | 1 |
0.8%
|
|
| poor conditions of service. | 1 |
0.8%
|
|
| poor medication | 1 |
0.8%
|
|
| prolonged illness of the spouse | 1 |
0.8%
|
|
| pupils and students | 1 |
0.8%
|
|
| rains destructive business | 1 |
0.8%
|
|
| relocated and haven't fully settled | 1 |
0.8%
|
|
| separation in marriage | 1 |
0.8%
|
|
| sick due to hiv | 1 |
0.8%
|
|
| sickness | 1 |
0.8%
|
|
| sickness and didease | 1 |
0.8%
|
|
| sickness of the spouse | 1 |
0.8%
|
|
| sicknesses | 1 |
0.8%
|
|
| sicknesses of the head of the house | 1 |
0.8%
|
|
| sicness | 1 |
0.8%
|
|
| stable | 1 |
0.8%
|
|
| the house was on fire | 1 |
0.8%
|
|
| the household was forced to sell all the pigs by the neighbours | 1 |
0.8%
|
|
| the wife had to stop the business she was doing because of the injury she sustained last year in a car accident hence the household as become very low | 1 |
0.8%
|
|
| their house got burnt | 1 |
0.8%
|
|
| there was no agreements in this household especially between husband and wife, eventually they divorced. | 1 |
0.8%
|
|
| they are on salary increase | 1 |
0.8%
|
|
| thieves broke into her house and carried with them most of her property | 1 |
0.8%
|
|
| thieves broke into his home | 1 |
0.8%
|
|
| too old | 2 |
1.6%
|
|
| too old to work | 2 |
1.6%
|
|
| transfer to another location and accident. | 1 |
0.8%
|
|
| used to be kept but told to fend for one self and the number of children are increasing. | 1 |
0.8%
|
|
| was drinking to much beer. | 1 |
0.8%
|
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.