2022 Living Conditions Monitoring Survey
Eighth Edition
Zambia
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ZMB-ZSA-LCMS-2022-V1.0
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- 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?, Other Specify (Sec14_q2other)
Data file: sect14a_Self_Assessed_Poverty_ANONYMIZED
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Valid:
310
Type:
Discrete
Width:
255
Range:
-
Format:
character
Questions and instructions
Categories
| Value | Category | Cases | |
|---|---|---|---|
| AGED | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| AGING | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| AGRICULTURAL IMPORTS ARE NOT THERE AND THINGS ARE VERY EXPENSIVE | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| AM THE ONLY BREAD WINNER IN THE FAMILY | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Able to live A Normal life | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Able to meet daily needs | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Absence of social security | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Aging makes it difficult to farm | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Aging no longer as productive. Unable to access social cash transfer | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Agricultural inputs are too expensive | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Agricultural inputs too expensive | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Agriculture extention services | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Am the breadwinner, all the extended family members depend on me. | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| BREAD WINNER FELL ILL | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Bad living conditions offerd by the govt to teachers in rural areas and illness | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Because I am working | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Bicycle for movements for business | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Cant afford good meals | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| DESTROYING OF CROPS BY ANIMALS | 2 |
0.6%
|
|
| Didn't farm for we had just relocated | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Divorce | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Doesnt make enough money to meet all the household need | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Due to long term illness | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Due to the illness | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Elephants, Hippos, Monkeys destroys my maize and vegetables | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| FAILURE TO EXPANSION OF THE HOUSE | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| HUSBAND AND HELPER DIED | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| House rented out brings little money | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Human/animal conflicts | 4 |
1.3%
|
|
| I don't have a job | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| I have never worked before. | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| I have no husband | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Infrastructure | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Keeping orphans | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| LACK OF EDUCATION | 2 |
0.6%
|
|
| LACK OF FINANCES | 2 |
0.6%
|
|
| LACK OF HOSPITAL FACILITIES | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| LACK OF MONEY | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| LUCKY OF BYSICLE | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| LUCKY OF FINANCIAL | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Lack of agricultural land | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Lack of Education | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Lack of Money to buy anything | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Lack of adequate living | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Lack of money | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Lack of proper business ideas and Savings | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Lack of solar pump | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Leg pains | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Low man power | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| MONEY IS HARD TO FIND | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| My children have not completed school | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| NO AGRICULTURAL PRODUCE DUE TO PREGNANCY | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| NO WATER | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| NONE | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| No Assets in the house | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| No Employment Opportunities | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| No electricity | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| No employment opportunities | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| No one to help | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Old age | 2 |
0.6%
|
|
| Orphans to feed | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Paying school fees for my children, and roads | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Polygamy marriage | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| SCHOOL | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| SICKNESS OF HUSBAND | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Scriptural reasoning of last days | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Still in school and under parental care | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| THIEVES STORE HOME ITEMS | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| TRANSPORT TOO HIGH | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| The family is being helped by the children who lives in a different provice | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| They are not very poor because they are able to sustain themselves. | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Too old to engage business activities. | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| Too old to work | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| WE ARE STILL NEE IN THE AREA | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| able to meet daily needs | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| able to afford needs | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| able to manage 3 meals in a day, | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| agriculture inputs not fairly distributed | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| always asks and depends on others | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| am very old and i have no one to look after me | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| animal invasion into household fields | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| bad economy | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| bad roads | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| because I take care of many children | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| because I don't have a job | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| because of divorce | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| because of separation from the husband | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| because others cannot afford what they can afford as a household | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| because somethings we can afford | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| because they have some cow | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| because we haven't acquired quality education | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| beer | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| big family | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| breadwiner left us and married somewhere else | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| can not work or farm becomes of old age | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| can't afford a decent meal | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| can't afford everything they want. | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| can't manage with providing food at times | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| cannot access a loan | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| capital or money to do business and no employment | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| challenges in getting food | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| death of a marriage partner | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| death of the spouse | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| death rate is too high | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| demands higher than income | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| departure of marriage partner | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| depends on the children to gift me with food | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| destruction of farm fields by animals (human/animal conflict ) | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| difficult in walking | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| dislocation of borne | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| do not afford to manage my household | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| do not have money | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| do not own anything | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| doesn't have a man | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| doesn't meet the requirements for the family | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| doesnt own cars | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| don't have a father | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| don't have enough fields to cultivate | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| don't have much asets and other daily needs | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| don't know how God blessed me | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| dont have all essentials | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| drinking too alcohol | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| due to long illness | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| due to main household having an injury | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| due to sickness | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| due to the irresponsible husband who only drinks | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| economy is bad | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| education levels | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| elephant destroying fields | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| elephants eating our maize fields | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| establishing the business | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| expenses to cure spouse (medicines) traditional hospital medicine | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| extended family | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| falling to do my duties due to old age | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| family is less | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| few people buying groceries. | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| field being destroyed by wild animals, hence no harvest | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| financial problems | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| finicially hancaped as she is oldage so she cant afford to fend for the family | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| goats stolen | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| got heavily robbed | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| have no where to get the resources need for me to have a better life | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| health condition | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| high prices of food | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| house conditions | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| house got burnt | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| house hold head has two body operations disabling him to venture into further manual work | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| house was burnt with everythinh in it | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| houseeholds demands higher than the income | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| household head has been partially paralysed. | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| human/animal conflict. Animals destroy every crop grown being in the park | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| husband doesn't want to work,he just drinks bear | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| husband drinking problems | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| husband is a drunkard so cannot cultivate more crops | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| husband not responsible | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| husband waste money in beer drinking | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| i have got no relateves since my childhood just raised from streets | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| illness | 7 |
2.3%
|
|
| illness which has lead to disability | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| inadequate source of income | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| increase in food prices | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| insufficient money | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| is not in formal employment | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| it has a family issues poverty | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| lack access to general standard facilities | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| lack of money for education | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| lack of solar pump | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| lack of adequate farming equipment to use for farming as they have land but don't have enough equipment to cultivate every piece of land | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| lack of assets | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| lack of cooperation | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| lack of education | 7 |
2.3%
|
|
| lack of employment | 3 |
1%
|
|
| lack of farming equipments | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| lack of food | 2 |
0.6%
|
|
| lack of food and other things | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| lack of government impowerment to the farmers | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| lack of helper | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| lack of household ameninities | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| lack of land for farming | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| lack of man power to do farming | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| lack of matress , bed | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| lack of money | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| lack of money. | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| lack of proper support from family | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| lack of support from her children | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| lack of support from the father to my children | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| lack of things i need | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| leg pains | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| living apart most times with the husband,so she fends for the family most times | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| lost all our properties with fire | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| lost capital | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| luck of financial strain | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| many dependants | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| marital differences(divorced) | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| marriage | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| missing meals sometimes | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| mo potray | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| more livestock | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| needs an own hammer mill | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| needs are not fully met for the household | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| no electricity | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| no employment | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| no helper | 2 |
0.6%
|
|
| no helper to help to become successfull or live a decent life. | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| no helping hand from government | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| no house | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| no job ( the husband just does peace work ) | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| no money in circulation. poverty in many households | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| no one to help out | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| no power to do activities on her own | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| no proper roads for good transportation | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| no roads for proper businesses | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| no roads to sell goods and to access basic needs | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| not able to manage all | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| not able to meet requirements | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| not able to own personal property but parents | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| not educated | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| not enough money to buy food | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| not getting social cash transfer | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| not working anymore due to retirement | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| old age | 4 |
1.3%
|
|
| old age hence,cant farm well. | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| old age no helping hands | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| old age sickness | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| old age, all her children died and no support from the relative | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| old aged | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| old aged and more children to take care of. | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| old aged and taking care of school going children | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| old and can't manage to provide the family with all the needs. | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| parents afford to take them to school | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| poor background | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| poor planning | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| poverty interms of feeding,poverty interms of clothing and footwear as well as poverty interms of movement. | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| pressure of children | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| rentals too high | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| repaying back a loan | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| retirement | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| school fees for thr first born son where high and sold most of his cattle and goats | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| she can afford clothes | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| she is a single parent | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| she is old aged and unable to carry out most activities she spends money just to get most work done but she doesn't have any solid source of income | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| sickness | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| sickness and old age | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| sickness of breadwinner | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| slow selling of produce | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| social cash transfer is too low and is only received aftet 2 months | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| still have inadequate resouces | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| the business collapsed after the market got on fire | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| the cost of living is high | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| the elephants are derailing our agriculture production | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| the father run away | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| the house water goes inside | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| the spouse lost her job thereby reducing the household income | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| they lack a lot of things and money | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| they way we eat we dont manage everything | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| thieves stole animals | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| those are the standards | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| to old to do work | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| too many expenses on school | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| too many people in the home | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| too many responsibilities | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| too old | 2 |
0.6%
|
|
| too old they can't manage to work on their own | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| too old husband and wife | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| too old to do any type of work | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| too old to do things | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| too old to work for myself. | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| uanable to work properly because of an old injury | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| unable to buy bicycles | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| unable to meet household demands | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| unable to provide all the neccesities for the children | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| unfaithfulness of the government.worked for three months without pay. | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| using a lot of money to treat a psychiatric child | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| was sick couldn't manage to farm | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| water | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| we are full time school girls we dont do any other business so life is hard | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| we are still school pupils only depending in what our parents give us | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| we can afford certain things that others can not. | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| we depend/relay on other people to survive | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| we don't a car | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| we lack things that our friends have like radio , iron sheet roofing | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| women empowerment | 1 |
0.3%
|
|
| youth empowerment | 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.