Expenditure and Service Delivery Survey in Education 2002
Zambia, 2002
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ZMB_2002_ESDS_v01_M
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Government of the Republic of Zambia, World Bank
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Sep 30, 2011
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Reasons for low attendance among boys: Specified (s5q6d)
Data file: headteacher1_final
Overview
Valid:
122
Invalid:
0
Type:
Discrete
Start:
304
End:
353
Width:
50
Format:
Questions and instructions
Literal question
What are the typical reasons for boys not attending school regularly?
Categories
| Value | Category |
|---|---|
| Attitude of parents towards education is negative | |
| Bad company, financial problems in their homes | |
| Beer drinking,dagga smoking | |
| Boys are mostly too playful | |
| Boys are playful, financial constraints | |
| Business, poverty | |
| Culture of education is negative. | |
| Distance to school is long | |
| Distractions in town | |
| Don t appreciate education. | |
| Early marriages | |
| Economic reasons (finances) | |
| Entertainment | |
| Farming, charcoal burning | |
| Fearing bullies | |
| Fees | |
| Financial problems | |
| Fishing | |
| Go out to do piecework to raise money to pay fees. | |
| Guardians cannot afford to support them. | |
| Home-related issues | |
| Hunting for birds | |
| Labour in the market piecework | |
| Lack of encouragement | |
| Lack of financial support ,no books ,pencils | |
| Lack of financial support, lack of financial suppo | |
| Lack of material | |
| Lack of requirements for school. | |
| Laziness | |
| Laziness and ignorance | |
| Laziness, initiation | |
| Live very far. | |
| Long distance | |
| Need to help parents sell commodities | |
| Negligence | |
| No encouragement from parents | |
| No financial support | |
| No funding | |
| No money | |
| Non payment of fees | |
| PLAYING | |
| Parents do not encourage children | |
| Playful, watching videos | |
| Playing | |
| Playing, piecework | |
| Poverty | |
| River flooding | |
| School for girls | |
| Selling, vending | |
| Sent on business erands | |
| Sent to sell things | |
| Some parents see no reason to send their children | |
| They go looking for learning materials | |
| Watching video games | |
| Work to earn money for home | |
| business | |
| distance and cold,lack of funds. | |
| early marriages | |
| engage in business to raise money | |
| entertainment | |
| entertainment and lack of money | |
| finances | |
| financial problems | |
| fishing | |
| fishing and hunting | |
| fishing and marketing | |
| fishing and mat making | |
| floods | |
| funerals | |
| go fishing,no clothes | |
| go into fish business | |
| go to sell goods | |
| hunting | |
| join nyau dances | |
| lack of finances | |
| lack of financial support | |
| lack of interest | |
| lack of motivation from parents | |
| laziness | |
| marriage | |
| marrige | |
| negative attitude towards education. | |
| no money,peer pressure | |
| parents do not value education | |
| parents do not value education. | |
| planting season | |
| playful | |
| playfull | |
| poverty | |
| poverty,lack of school necessities | |
| pupils attend classes regularly | |
| reedmaking,fishing | |
| taken to fishing camps by parents | |
| to playful | |
| too playful | |
| vending | |
| video shows | |
| watching the train and catching caterpillars | |
| would rather go fishing and hunting. |
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.
Interviewer instructions
Record up to 3 reasons