Living Conditions Monitoring Survey VII 2015
Zambia, 2015
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Specify what do you think has led your household to be in poverty. (sec15_2s)
Data file: household_dwelling_and_others
Overview
Valid:
554
Invalid:
0
Type:
Discrete
Start:
1177
End:
1256
Width:
80
Format:
Questions and instructions
Categories
| Value | Category |
|---|---|
| AGETTING OLD EACH DAY | |
| Access to things needed on a daily basis is a challenge | |
| Accommodation is expensive | |
| Age Too old | |
| Aged spaus | |
| All children died remaining with one | |
| Animal distructions. Animals destroying crops in the fields | |
| Animals eat our crops | |
| As widow she struggles to raise the children | |
| Bad policies of the government | |
| Because am a widower. | |
| Because he did mot complete his Education | |
| Because her husband can't afford to take care of her and the family | |
| Because of the divorce | |
| Being a single mother | |
| Being uneducated | |
| Business levy too high | |
| Can not afford everything | |
| Can not afford to do any energeable job | |
| Can not afford to pay or buy clothes, bedings, food and school fees for the gran | |
| Can't cultivate due to old age | |
| Cant afford every thing alone | |
| Cant afford every thing alone since i have no husband | |
| Cant meet the demands | |
| Cant meet the demands for a normal living | |
| Children lacking discipline steal maize from her | |
| College s too expensive | |
| Corruption | |
| Cost of living,Things are Hard. | |
| DEATH OF HUSBAND | |
| DELAYAL TO BE PAID PENSION BY GOVERNMENT | |
| DIDN'T NOT COMPLET SCHOOL | |
| Dam | |
| Death of both parents | |
| Death of husbund | |
| Death of some family members and I have taken the responsibility of the orphans | |
| Death of the husband | |
| Delayed FRA PAYMENTS | |
| Delayed payments from FRA after selling maize | |
| Divorce | |
| Do not enough income | |
| Does not have a wife | |
| Dont have house hold assets | |
| Due to age am now getting old and less power to do hard work like faming | |
| Due to divorce | |
| Due to illness | |
| Due to old age as a result she's failing to live a better life | |
| Due to old age, the old lady cannot do any job and she depends on well wishers a | |
| Due to sickness of the head of house | |
| Education levels too low | |
| Education very poor | |
| Electricity | |
| Elephants destroy our crops | |
| Elephants destroying our crops | |
| Everything is beign paid 4 at high prices | |
| FAILURE TO LEARN | |
| Family been unfair in sharing family resources | |
| Family too big | |
| Finding Difficult to pay school fees | |
| Frequent sickness | |
| Getting old. | |
| Given late their money as farmers from( FRA) | |
| God allowed it to be so | |
| God's design | |
| God's design for his life | |
| Got married | |
| Government policy on small scale famers doesn't help them. | |
| HE DOESNT HAVE A VEHICLE | |
| Hard conditions by banks when you want to get a loan | |
| Has just made the union of msrriage | |
| Have a lot of orphans being taken care of. | |
| Have grown old and have lost the energy to do hard works. | |
| He didn't go to school | |
| Higher prices of foods schools etc | |
| Higher rentals | |
| Higher school fees | |
| Household assets | |
| Husband is a polygamist hence he pays little attention to the family's growth an | |
| Husband not working | |
| Husband spend more money on girlfriends | |
| I cant meet the demands | |
| I do spend much on School going children | |
| I don't know.God is the provider | |
| IF SHE HAS A GOT TO RAISE LIFE CAN CHANGE | |
| IRRESPONSIBLE PARENT | |
| If i had resources to start poultry business | |
| Illness | |
| Illnesses | |
| Job not permanent | |
| Just want to be in the same condition | |
| Keeping orphans | |
| Kwacha depreciating at high rates | |
| LACK OF EMPLOYMENT | |
| LACK OF JOBS | |
| Lack of water has led to us being poor | |
| Lack of Education | |
| Lack of Education and financial support | |
| Lack of Fishing Materials | |
| Lack of Parents | |
| Lack of accommodation | |
| Lack of accomodation | |
| Lack of any help from anywhere | |
| Lack of education | |
| Lack of enough money to sustain a better living | |
| Lack of enough money to sustaine our living | |
| Lack of financial resources to over come problem comes | |
| Lack of help from anywhere | |
| Lack of household assets | |
| Lack of household assets and basic needs | |
| Lack of money, food and other basic needs | |
| Lack of own accomodation | |
| Lack of support from the government | |
| Lack of transport | |
| Lacking alot of enssencial commodities | |
| Lacking proper job,decent jobs | |
| Late payment by government to farmers who supply maize | |
| Late planting | |
| Lavk of household assets | |
| Less economic activity in locality area | |
| Less man power due to old age | |
| Less money to sustain suitable living | |
| Less money to the demands | |
| Life is hard these days everything is expensive | |
| Limited sources of funds | |
| Loss of Son who we invsted in so much | |
| Loss of property to the husband | |
| Lost property in an inferno | |
| Low wages | |
| Luck of Education | |
| Migrated from Kawambwa | |
| Money not enough to pay school fees | |
| Most of the money made goes to the school going children | |
| My Brother Not Educated | |
| NEEDS A BICYCLE | |
| Nature | |
| Need to upgrade myself as a constructor inorder for me to make more money in my | |
| Needs a job apart ftom what he does | |
| No house | |
| No Bohore for water | |
| No enough income | |
| No enough man power to assist as the Husband is sick | |
| No enough money to meet the demands | |
| No health facilities and banks | |
| No help from anywhere | |
| No husband | |
| No husband to help out | |
| No husband to look up to | |
| No husband to support the family | |
| No inheritance | |
| No other means of finding money | |
| No own house | |
| No support from relatives | |
| No tractor | |
| No transport to transport farm produce to the boma for sale | |
| Not acquired enough education to enhance the living condition | |
| Not enough man power | |
| Not to health due to age of the head of the house hold | |
| OLD AGE | |
| Old age | |
| Old age (can't work very hard) | |
| Old age is another contributing factor | |
| Old age is another factor.because productivity has reduced | |
| Old age. | |
| On enough money to meet the demands | |
| Parents died when still young and lack of education | |
| People to buy crafts are not there to buy | |
| Place is too far from the main roads and therefore find it hard to sell products | |
| Poor government policy | |
| Poor health | |
| Poor soils | |
| Regulations on Charcoal burning | |
| Rentals are too high. | |
| Resigned from work and the benefits not paid | |
| Responsibility of being the bread winner | |
| SHE CAN NOT MANAGE TO PAY FOR TUITION FEES | |
| SICKNESS | |
| School fees are too high | |
| She can not afford every thing alone | |
| She is a Widower cannot afford enough food and keeping father less Childrens at | |
| Stopped receiving pension due to misunderstandings at the head office | |
| THE HUSBAND DRINKS TOO MUCH | |
| TOO MUCH BEER DRINKING. NOT HARD WORKING | |
| Tax rates are too high | |
| The family is too big | |
| The family is very big | |
| The head of the house is mentally disturbed. | |
| The house got burnt and we lost alotof things | |
| The household head where he was working for the first time he went for some mon | |
| The resources received from the farming is used for the school going children | |
| Too many responsibilities | |
| Too much expenses for the family | |
| Too old | |
| Too old and illnesses. | |
| Too old and no longer active as in the past | |
| Too old to Work | |
| Too old to be working | |
| Too old to do anything | |
| Too old to find work to do | |
| Too old to work | |
| Too old to work and he has no children who are in employment | |
| Tranport is exepensive | |
| Transport from home to work is expensive | |
| Transport to where things are cheap to expensive | |
| Very poor due to marriage dispute | |
| WAGE FREEZE AND THE GOVT NOT KEEPNG THEIR PROMISES WANTS TOLEAVE GOVT | |
| We can not afford every thing | |
| We dont meet the demands | |
| We fail to meet the basic needs of the H/H | |
| Wild animal destruction of crops | |
| Working conditions should improve | |
| aging | |
| all my childrrn have died | |
| and some time back elephants would attack butala were the harvest is store | |
| bad government policies e.g structural adjustment program and the privatization | |
| bankrupcy | |
| because I cultivate alone | |
| because I live in the village | |
| because of age | |
| because of people not being proactive | |
| because parents divorced | |
| because the head of the house has been sick | |
| because they havent yet harvested what they cultivated in 2014 2015 farming seas | |
| big family | |
| can not work due to old age | |
| can't affod all the needs at home and school fees for chidren. | |
| can't afford all the needs. | |
| can't afford all needs in a month | |
| can't afford all needs in a month. | |
| can't afford all the needs | |
| can't afford all the needs and the money for is pension hasn't been issued to hi | |
| can't afford all the needs at home | |
| can't afford all the needs in a month | |
| can't afford all the needs. | |
| can't afford the needs even to sponser childred at school especially at college. | |
| can't afford to buy required foods for my condition | |
| can't afford to provide themselves with food | |
| can't wait as required due to being too old | |
| cannot afford to take the kids at sku | |
| cannot the necessary basic needs | |
| cant Arford to educate school going children | |
| cant farm due to game animals | |
| cigarettes and alcohol abuse | |
| clothing | |
| continous illness of the head of House hold (General body Pains) | |
| cost of living too high | |
| death of bread winner | |
| death of my late husband | |
| death our both parents | |
| delay in paying terminal benifits | |
| delayements of salaries | |
| delays by FRA to make payments to farmers | |
| dependant's | |
| did not complete school | |
| didn't get educated therefore it has made him fail to support himself and his fa | |
| didnt complete shool | |
| difficulties in educating children | |
| distruction of crops by animals | |
| divorce | |
| divorce with the husband and collapse of the house | |
| divorce. | |
| do not have enough money to buy food | |
| does not have anyone to help her out at home | |
| does not have anyone to help him | |
| does not have enough strength to work very hard | |
| does not have money frequently | |
| don't get satisfied with their needs in the house | |
| don't have a house | |
| don't have all needs | |
| don't manage food for need | |
| dont have own accomodation | |
| due to bigfamily | |
| due to hand injury sustained 5 years ago hence unable work effectively | |
| due to sicknesses | |
| during rain season chances of finding where work opportunities are slim or not t | |
| expensive schools | |
| failing to educate children | |
| failing to have adquate needs in a month | |
| failing to look after the children and takings them to school | |
| failing to provide for children's. school fees. food clothing | |
| family cases passed on to my household | |
| family size | |
| food not enough and money too little | |
| growing old | |
| had 65 cattle all died , 2 hammer all noloonger operating , a boat together with | |
| has been sick for the past feel years so the head of household is struggling to | |
| has not receiv3d graduity after the contract ended | |
| has not yet been paid pension benefits | |
| have a a lot of orphans in the house to look after. | |
| have one supporter | |
| health problems | |
| higher rental charges | |
| house | |
| house is too small | |
| household members too many | |
| husband not sportive | |
| ilitracy | |
| illness | |
| illness in the faamily | |
| illness of the head of household | |
| illness-stroke | |
| illnesses | |
| illnesses has caused poverty | |
| inability to work | |
| its not yet time | |
| just started a housahold | |
| labour to expensive | |
| lack of transport to take own produces to the markets | |
| lack of a education | |
| lack of a husband | |
| lack of adquate finances to carter home need | |
| lack of aid to old people...family conflicts | |
| lack of club empowerment | |
| lack of education | |
| lack of education both accademically and business wise | |
| lack of education when I was young | |
| lack of education. | |
| lack of financial resources | |
| lack of financial support | |
| lack of food | |
| lack of good shelter | |
| lack of government support and agriculture inputs | |
| lack of higher education standard | |
| lack of income for buying goods | |
| lack of knowledge on how to do business | |
| lack of knowledge or education | |
| lack of land to do farming | |
| lack of manpower | |
| lack of market to buy food we travell long distances to get food. | |
| lack of market to sell other crops other than maize | |
| lack of money | |
| lack of own accommodation | |
| lack of school | |
| lack of security to safeguard business | |
| lack of skills clubs for women | |
| land wrangles. we cant cultivate because we are scared they might chase us any t | |
| late payment for maize from FRA | |
| late payment for maize sold to FRA | |
| leg problem( health) | |
| less fishing nets | |
| low agriculture production due to wild animals | |
| low circulation of money | |
| low teaching services. poor teaching. in schools | |
| luck of colleges | |
| main job does not give room to perform second job | |
| market and clinics are every far | |
| markets for buying things for eating | |
| marriage conflicts | |
| misunderstandings within the family/fightings | |
| money to buy food to eat | |
| money to educate children | |
| more dependants at household | |
| most of the money we get goes to school | |
| need a car | |
| need electricity to store food in fridges and also to cook on the stove. | |
| negligence from leaders responsible | |
| never went to school because the father never wanted her to go to school and the | |
| no access to youth economic fund due to some people who block other from accessi | |
| no children to support her | |
| no helping hands:own sons or daughters | |
| no husband | |
| no inheritance from parents | |
| no jobs | |
| no member of parliament to rep | |
| no money | |
| no money to agrivulture facilities | |
| no money to buy a hiuse ir take children to the university | |
| no one educated in the family | |
| no one to help around | |
| no own accomodation | |
| no permanent place to stay | |
| no plot of their own | |
| no where to stay | |
| not able to do work due healthy problem | |
| not able to satisfy there needs | |
| not applicable | |
| not being educated | |
| not doing well occording to there level | |
| not educated | |
| not feeling well hiv | |
| not having a tent | |
| not having education | |
| not having enough money | |
| not having finished school | |
| not poor | |
| not receiving pension payment | |
| old age | |
| old age | |
| old age and heavy burden of orphans | |
| old age.unable to do much work | |
| olf can't work harder | |
| parents negligence | |
| paying off of school fees | |
| pension not been given | |
| place far from the town centre | |
| political harassment on public workers | |
| poor accomodation | |
| poor agricultural marketing in Zambia. | |
| poor because parents were poor. no one to help another | |
| poor contions of service offered by mines | |
| poor government policies | |
| poor harvest | |
| poor marketing system and poor road networks | |
| poor road network | |
| poor water for drinking | |
| pupils and students | |
| rainfall partern not good | |
| rentals too costly | |
| rented accomodation | |
| retired three years ago but hasnt yet received pension, most savings spent in pu | |
| salary two low and it is always delayed never paid on time | |
| says was born poor and married a poor man | |
| school fees are too expesive | |
| school fees are too high | |
| school fees to high and one person working | |
| school fees too high | |
| schools fees too high | |
| separation of parents | |
| she is a single parent, the husband is mad | |
| she is widow | |
| she z too old to work | |
| sickness | |
| sickness ( lack of strength in the joints and severe leg pains) | |
| sickness and death of parent | |
| sickness of household head | |
| sickness/Illnesses | |
| sicknesses | |
| sicknesses and did not go to school | |
| slow inflow of money. | |
| spouse divorced | |
| spouse not around | |
| started savings late | |
| stopped school | |
| suffering from stroke | |
| taxes are too high | |
| the babies | |
| the bill for terciary too high | |
| the family is big | |
| the head of the household didn't receive his forced early retirement money. | |
| the house is too small for the family | |
| the house was on fire | |
| the living condition for this household is moderately poor | |
| theft | |
| there are managing on other living standards | |
| to old to work | |
| too much responsibility | |
| too old and usually sick to work | |
| too old to be able to provide food for the family | |
| too old to be economic active | |
| too old to farm | |
| too old to work | |
| too old to work and sick | |
| too relaxed not to put in much effort to improve on the lively hood | |
| too weak to work | |
| tough compiting for cars to was | |
| transport cost is too high | |
| transport is expensive | |
| transport services too expensive | |
| wage freeze | |
| was born poor and didnt inherit anything from patents. | |
| water bills to high | |
| water were cattle drink from its very far | |
| we have almost everything but think we luck coperation within family to | |
| widow |
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.