2006 LIVING CONDITIONS AND MONITORING SURVEY
5TH EDITION

Zambia, 2006 - 2007

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ZMB-ZSA-LCMS-2006-V1.0

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CENTRAL STATISTICAL OFFICE

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Data file: Self Assesd Poverty and Household Strategies

The data set shows the respondent's poverty perception of his household. The variables include; poor, moderately poor, extremely poor and non-poor. Other variables are number of meals per day, begging from neighbors, begging in the street, how much money the household needs. This is purely the perception of the household. This data was compiled at national, provincial, rural/urban and stratum

Cases:	18662
Variables:	50

Variables

province

district

const

ward

csa

sea

rururb

stratum

hhnum

Household number

S10Q1

1. Do you consider your household to be not poor, moderately

S10Q2A

2a. What do you think has led your household to be in povert

S10Q2B

2b. What do you think has led your household to be in povert

S10Q2C

2c. What do you think has led your household to be in povert

S10Q3

3. Compared to last year, do you consider your household...?

S10Q4A

4a. Why do you think you are the same or worse off?

S10Q4B

4b. Why do you think you are the same or worse off?

S10Q4C

4c. Why do you think you are the same or worse off?

S10Q5

5. How much money do you think in needed in a month....?

S10Q6

6. How many meals excluding snacks do you normally have in a

S10Q7

7. How many times in the past one month did your household e

S10Q8

8. How many times in the past one week did your household ea

S10Q91

9.1. Piecework on farms belonging to other households

S10Q92

9.2. Other piecework

S10Q93

9.3. Working on food-for-work or 'food-for-assets' program

S10Q94

9.4. Relief food, free food from government and other bodies

S10Q95

9.5. Eating wild food only

S10Q96

9.6. Substituting ordinary meals with mangoes, pumpkin, swee

S10Q97

9.7. Reducing number of meals or food-in-take

S10Q98

9.8. Reducing other household items e.g. soap, tissue, deter

S10Q99

9.9. Informal borrowing (e.g. kaloba, borrowing from friends

S10Q910

9.10. Formal borrowing in cash or kind (e.g. borrowing from

S10Q911

9.11. Church charity

S10Q912

9.12. NGO charity e.g. assistance from Care International, W

S10Q913

9.13. Pulling children out of school

S10Q914

9.14. Sale of assets, such as cattle, fridge, car, etc

S10Q915

9.15. Petty vending

S10Q916

9.16. Asking from friends, neighbours, relatives

S10Q917

9.17. Begging from the streets

S10Q918

9.18. Other (specify)

S11AQ01

1. Did any member of this household grow any food crops.....

hhid

Household ID (unique)

psu_id

primary sampling unit ID

weight

household sampling weight / household inflation factor

weightpo

population inflation factor (weight_roster x hhsize)

adq_cso

adult equivalent scale, CSO

hhsize

povfilte

indicator variable for hhs used for poverty analysis (1=yes)

poor

fpline

food poverty line (in Nov./Dec. 2006 national median prices)

pline

total poverty line (in Nov./Dec. 2006 national median prices)

Total: 50

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