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
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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
Why do you think your household is worse off?-2nd (Sec14_q4_2)
Data file: sect14a_Self_Assessed_Poverty_ANONYMIZED
Overview
Valid:
1833
Invalid:
245247
Minimum:
1
Maximum:
28
Type:
Discrete
Decimal:
0
Width:
2
Range:
1 - 88
Format:
Numeric
Questions and instructions
Categories
| Value | Category | Cases | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1. Cannot afford/lack of agricultural inputs | 68 |
3.7%
|
| 2 | 2. Agricultural inputs are not available for buying in thi | 61 |
3.3%
|
| 3 | 3. Lack of agricultural inputs due to other reasons | 71 |
3.9%
|
| 4 | 4. Low agricultural production | 107 |
5.8%
|
| 5 | 5. Drought | 60 |
3.3%
|
| 6 | 6. Floods | 27 |
1.5%
|
| 7 | 7. Lack of adequate land | 42 |
2.3%
|
| 8 | 8. Low prices for their agricultural produce | 40 |
2.2%
|
| 9 | 9. Lack of market/buyers for the household's agricultural | 21 |
1.1%
|
| 10 | 10. Lack of cattle/oxen | 46 |
2.5%
|
| 11 | 11. Death of cattle due to diseases | 19 |
1%
|
| 12 | 12. Lack of capital (money) to start/expand agricultural out | 95 |
5.2%
|
| 13 | 13. Lack of capital (money) to diversify into cash crops | 73 |
4%
|
| 14 | 14. Lack of credit facilities to start or to buy agricultura | 38 |
2.1%
|
| 15 | 15. Lack of capital (money) to start own business or to expa | 129 |
7%
|
| 16 | 16. Lack of credit facilities to start business or to expand | 40 |
2.2%
|
| 17 | 17. Lack of employment opportunities/cannot find a job | 149 |
8.1%
|
| 18 | 18. Salary/ wage too low | 71 |
3.9%
|
| 19 | 19. Pension payment too low | 2 |
0.1%
|
| 20 | 20. Retrenchment/redundancy | 3 |
0.2%
|
| 21 | 21. Prices of commodities too high | 317 |
17.3%
|
| 22 | 22. Hard economic times/economic decline of our country | 220 |
12%
|
| 23 | 23. Business not doing well | 60 |
3.3%
|
| 24 | 24. Too much competition | 5 |
0.3%
|
| 25 | 25. Due to disability | 10 |
0.5%
|
| 26 | 26. Death of bread winner | 18 |
1%
|
| 27 | 27. Debts | 5 |
0.3%
|
| 28 | 28. Other reasons | 36 |
2%
|
| 88 | 88. No response | 0 |
0%
|
| Sysmiss | 245247 |
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.