Afrobarometer South Africa 2000
South Africa, 2000
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Afrobarometer
SA 2000
how do you currently obtain food (q5a)
Data file: Afrobarometer SA 2000
Overview
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0
Invalid:
0
Type:
Discrete
Decimal:
0
Width:
8
Range:
-
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Question pretext
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Literal question
q5a. Describe how you currently obtain the food you and your family eat each month
Categories
| Value | Category |
|---|---|
| 1 | pay for it (cash or kind) |
| 2 | work for it |
| 3 | doing piece work |
| 4 | vending |
| 5 | crocheting |
| 6 | dressmaking |
| 7 | buy and sell chicken |
| 8 | own crops/livestock |
| 9 | grow maize |
| 10 | farming |
| 11 | rear chickens |
| 12 | neighbours assist |
| 13 | from friends and family |
| 14 | relatives provides |
| 15 | husband provides |
| 16 | friends |
| 17 | from my village |
| 18 | govt. food programme |
| 19 | govt. assistance |
| 20 | pensioner |
| 21 | traditional leader |
| 22 | know someone who helps me get govt. assistance |
| 23 | favour/bribe govt. official |
| 24 | pretend to be eligible for govt. assistance |
| 25 | steal it |
| 26 | ask anyone i can |
| 27 | beg for it |
| 28 | beg from relatives and friends |
| 29 | sit at home |
| 30 | breadwinner does not work |
| 31 | boyfriend provides |
| 32 | parents provide |
| 33 | from hand to mouth |
| 34 | african evangelist church |
| 35 | social workers |
| 36 | it will never happen |
| 37 | get credit |
| 38 | buy on account |
| 39 | find food somewhere |
| 40 | trade/barter/exchange |
| 41 | gold panning |
| 42 | fishing |
| 43 | building |
| 44 | cross-border training |
| 45 | commercial sex |
| 46 | beer brewing |
| 47 | business (small-scale) |
| 48 | business (medium to large) |
| 49 | selling livestock/cattle |
| 50 | sell my belongings |
| 51 | provided by employer |
| 52 | casual work |
| 53 | hunting bush animals |
| 54 | borrow foodstuff |
| 55 | looking for employment |
| 56 | buying maize husks |
| 57 | complain to govt. officials |
| 58 | govt. will distribute free food |
| 59 | praying to god |
| 60 | nothing i can do |
| 61 | local community/co-operative |
| 62 | other |
| 63 | ineligible for govt. assistance |
| 64 | work in barbers shop |
| 65 | buying |
| 66 | buying to supplement home produce |
| 67 | collecting from forest |
| 68 | don't know |
| 69 | work for food |
| 70 | go back to the land |
| 71 | god provides |
| 72 | from renting houses |
| 73 | selling goods |
| 74 | struggling (retrenchment) |
| 75 | sleep/go without food |
| 76 | selling illegal brew |
| 77 | get food from church |
| 78 | wife provides |
| 79 | work in tanzanian farms |
| 80 | get it from well-wishers |
| 96 | no further reponse |
| 98 | refused |
| 99 | missing |
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.
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Description
Definition
Method by which the family obtain food to eat each month
Universe
The universe for this question is citizens of South Africa 18 years of age or older