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Afrobarometer Survey 2003, Round 2

Kenya, 2003
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KEN_2003_AFB-R2_v01_M
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The Institute for Democracy in South Africa (IDASA), Ghana Centre for Democratic Development (CDD-Ghana), Michigan State University (MSU)
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Q5a. First meaning of "poor" (q5a)

Data file: ken_r2_data.sav

Overview

Valid: 2398
Invalid: -
Minimum: -1
Maximum: 999
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 95
End: 97
Width: 3
Range: -1 - 999
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
5. In your opinion, what does it mean to be “poor”?
A. First meaning of “poor”
Categories
Value Category Cases
-1 Missing data 1
0%
0 Nothing 0
0%
1 Lack of food 548
22.9%
2 Lack of shelter 147
6.1%
3 Lack of clothing 54
2.3%
4 Lack of money 432
18%
5 Low living standards 146
6.1%
6 Lack of social amenities 1
0%
7 Lack of education/knowledge 68
2.8%
8 Lack of employment/job 165
6.9%
9 Low levels of health 52
2.2%
10 Powerlessness 4
0.2%
11 Living in substandard neighborhood 3
0.1%
12 Any life-threatening situation 0
0%
13 No child/spouse/unable to marry a wife 16
0.7%
14 Comparison between self and others, inability to meet expect 2
0.1%
15 Lack of entertainment (newspaper,TV,Radio,Video) 0
0%
16 Psychological status/mental health 12
0.5%
17 Exploitive labor (e.g. child labor, prostitution, etc) 5
0.2%
18 Lack of agricultural inputs (land/fertilizers/seeds) 12
0.5%
19 Race (associates black with poverty) 0
0%
20 Laziness/person who won't work 36
1.5%
21 Lack of family/social support network 4
0.2%
22 Inability to meet obligations/family responsibilities 19
0.8%
23 Beggar/destitute 11
0.5%
24 Unreligious 1
0%
25 A farmer 0
0%
26 Poverty (undifferentiated/unspecified) 1
0%
27 No water 9
0.4%
28 No electricity 2
0.1%
29 No cattle or livestock 95
4%
30 No land 161
6.7%
31 No vehicle/car 0
0%
32 In debt 0
0%
33 To have too many children to support 3
0.1%
34 To be a single parent 0
0%
35 To be old/a pensioner 3
0.1%
36 To depend on or revert to crime 0
0%
37 To only live for today/live day-to-day/no future planning 2
0.1%
38 To depend on domestic work/manual labor 1
0%
39 To have to rely on others for help 26
1.1%
40 Low social status/no community standing 1
0%
41 Street children/living on the street 0
0%
42 To be an alcoholic or drug addict 1
0%
43 Unable to contribute to the country 0
0%
49 Drought/lack of rain 2
0.1%
50 Lack of everything/not having anything 28
1.2%
51 Handicapped 166
6.9%
52 Racism/Suffering from discrimination 0
0%
53 Without love or affection 0
0%
54 To be sad, miserable, poor of spirit 6
0.3%
55 Having lots of problems, difficult life 8
0.3%
56 Lack of opportunities 2
0.1%
57 Lack of common sense 7
0.3%
58 A natural condition 0
0%
59 A national problem 5
0.2%
60 Lack of assets, property, wealth 66
2.8%
61 Lack of school fees 24
1%
62 Insecurity, lack of peace 2
0.1%
63 Being rural 1
0%
64 Income below a certain level 8
0.3%
75 Can't afford luxuries 0
0%
81 An orphan, no parents 14
0.6%
162 Rural women 0
0%
165 Lack of equipment for production 0
0%
170 Having bad luck, misfortune 0
0%
180 Lack of firewood 0
0%
181 Lack of businesses or markets 3
0.1%
995 Other 8
0.3%
998 Refused to answer 0
0%
999 Don't know 4
0.2%
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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