2022 Living Conditions Monitoring Survey
Eighth Edition
Zambia
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Reference ID
ZMB-ZSA-LCMS-2022-V1.0
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Zambia Statistics Agency
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Aug 16, 2025
Last modified
Feb 26, 2026
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- Data files
- Demographics2_ANONYMIZED
- IncomeTabulation_ANONYMIZED
- KG_ANONYMIZED
- sect1_sec3_2_Health_ANONYMIZED
- sect1_sect4_4_Education_ANONYMIZED
- sect7_3_Assets_ANONYMIZED
- Sect8_Housing_Characteristics_ANONYMIZED
- Sect9_1_Access_to_Facilities1_ANONYMIZED
- Sect9_2_Access_to_Facilities2_ANONYMIZED
- Sect12_2_Development_Issues_ANONYMIZED
- sect13_3_12_Child_Health_ANONYMIZED
- sect14a_Self_Assessed_Poverty_ANONYMIZED
- sect14b_Coping_Strategies_ANONYMIZED
- Sect15_2_Deaths_ANONYMIZED
What do you think has led your household to be in poverty?-2nd (Sec14_q2_2)
Data file: sect14a_Self_Assessed_Poverty_ANONYMIZED
Overview
Valid:
5789
Invalid:
241291
Minimum:
1
Maximum:
28
Type:
Discrete
Decimal:
0
Width:
2
Range:
1 - 28
Format:
Numeric
Questions and instructions
Categories
| Value | Category | Cases | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1. Cannot afford/lack of agricultural inputs | 247 |
4.3%
|
| 2 | 2. Agricultural inputs are not available for buying in thi | 214 |
3.7%
|
| 3 | 3. Lack of agricultural inputs due to other reasons | 258 |
4.5%
|
| 4 | 4. Low agricultural production | 329 |
5.7%
|
| 5 | 5. Drought | 173 |
3%
|
| 6 | 6. Floods | 94 |
1.6%
|
| 7 | 7. Lack of adequate land | 233 |
4%
|
| 8 | 8. Low prices for their agricultural produce | 156 |
2.7%
|
| 9 | 9. Lack of market/buyers for the household's agricultural | 115 |
2%
|
| 10 | 10. Lack of cattle/oxen | 197 |
3.4%
|
| 11 | 11. Death of cattle due to diseases | 46 |
0.8%
|
| 12 | 12. Lack of capital (money) to start/expand agricultural out | 367 |
6.3%
|
| 13 | 13. Lack of capital (money) to diversify into cash crops | 281 |
4.9%
|
| 14 | 14. Lack of credit facilities to start or to buy agricultura | 89 |
1.5%
|
| 15 | 15. Lack of capital (money) to start own business or to expa | 642 |
11.1%
|
| 16 | 16. Lack of credit facilities to start business or to expand | 188 |
3.2%
|
| 17 | 17. Lack of employment opportunities/cannot find a job | 549 |
9.5%
|
| 18 | 18. Salary/ wage too low | 220 |
3.8%
|
| 19 | 19. Pension payment too low | 17 |
0.3%
|
| 20 | 20. Retrenchment/redundancy | 7 |
0.1%
|
| 21 | 21. Prices of commodities too high | 604 |
10.4%
|
| 22 | 22. Hard economic times/economic decline of our country | 427 |
7.4%
|
| 23 | 23. Business not doing well | 149 |
2.6%
|
| 24 | 24. Too much competition | 26 |
0.4%
|
| 25 | 25. Due to disability | 17 |
0.3%
|
| 26 | 26. Death of bread winner | 58 |
1%
|
| 27 | 27. Debts | 17 |
0.3%
|
| 28 | 28. Other reasons | 69 |
1.2%
|
| Sysmiss | 241291 |
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.