Afrobarometer Survey 1999, Round 1
Zambia, 1999
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What other methods would you use to obtain food? (Q6A)
Data file: zam_r1_data.sav
Overview
Valid:
1198
Invalid:
-
Minimum:
1
Maximum:
99
Type:
Discrete
Decimal:
2
Start:
45
End:
49
Width:
5
Range:
1 - 99
Format:
Numeric
Questions and instructions
Literal question
6A. If you could no longer obtain food in this way, what other methods would you be most likely to use? Is there anything else?
Categories
| Value | Category | Cases | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pay for it (cash/kind) | 12 |
1%
|
| 2 | Work for it | 27 |
2.3%
|
| 3 | Doing piece work | 28 |
2.3%
|
| 4 | Vending | 6 |
0.5%
|
| 5 | Crocheting | 0 |
0%
|
| 6 | Dressmaking | 3 |
0.3%
|
| 7 | Buy & sell chicken | 0 |
0%
|
| 8 | Own crops/livestock | 7 |
0.6%
|
| 9 | Grow maize | 8 |
0.7%
|
| 10 | Farming | 139 |
11.6%
|
| 11 | Rear chickens | 2 |
0.2%
|
| 12 | Neighbours assist | 3 |
0.3%
|
| 13 | From friends & family | 20 |
1.7%
|
| 14 | Relatives provides | 19 |
1.6%
|
| 15 | Husband provides | 1 |
0.1%
|
| 16 | Friends | 8 |
0.7%
|
| 17 | From my village | 2 |
0.2%
|
| 18 | Govt food programme | 4 |
0.3%
|
| 19 | Govt assistance | 3 |
0.3%
|
| 20 | Pensioner | 1 |
0.1%
|
| 21 | Traditional leader | 0 |
0%
|
| 22 | Know someone who helps me get govt assistance | 0 |
0%
|
| 23 | Favour/Bribe govt official | 0 |
0%
|
| 24 | Pretend to be eligible for govt assistance | 0 |
0%
|
| 25 | Steal it | 5 |
0.4%
|
| 26 | Ask anyone I can | 6 |
0.5%
|
| 27 | Beg for it | 9 |
0.8%
|
| 28 | Beg from relatives & friends | 12 |
1%
|
| 29 | Sit at home | 0 |
0%
|
| 30 | Breadwinner does not work | 1 |
0.1%
|
| 31 | Boyfriend provides | 0 |
0%
|
| 32 | Parents provide | 0 |
0%
|
| 33 | From hand to mouth | 1 |
0.1%
|
| 34 | African Evangelist Church | 1 |
0.1%
|
| 35 | Social workers | 0 |
0%
|
| 36 | It will never happen | 0 |
0%
|
| 37 | Get credit | 7 |
0.6%
|
| 38 | Buy on account | 0 |
0%
|
| 39 | Find food somewhere | 2 |
0.2%
|
| 40 | Trade/barter/exchange | 2 |
0.2%
|
| 41 | Gold panning | 0 |
0%
|
| 42 | Fishing | 6 |
0.5%
|
| 43 | Building | 2 |
0.2%
|
| 44 | Cross-border training | 0 |
0%
|
| 45 | Commercial sex | 0 |
0%
|
| 46 | Beer brewing | 3 |
0.3%
|
| 47 | Business (small-scale) | 97 |
8.1%
|
| 48 | Business (medium to large) | 0 |
0%
|
| 49 | Selling livestock/cattle | 1 |
0.1%
|
| 50 | Sell my belongings | 3 |
0.3%
|
| 51 | Provided by employer | 0 |
0%
|
| 52 | Casual work | 1 |
0.1%
|
| 53 | Hunting bush animals | 0 |
0%
|
| 54 | Borrow foodstuff | 2 |
0.2%
|
| 55 | Looking for employment | 11 |
0.9%
|
| 56 | Buying maize husks | 0 |
0%
|
| 57 | Complain to govt officials | 2 |
0.2%
|
| 58 | Govt will distribute free food | 5 |
0.4%
|
| 59 | Praying to God | 3 |
0.3%
|
| 60 | Nothing I can do | 661 |
55.2%
|
| 61 | Local community/Co-operative | 0 |
0%
|
| 62 | Other | 6 |
0.5%
|
| 63 | Ineligible for govt assistance | 0 |
0%
|
| 64 | Work in barber's shop | 0 |
0%
|
| 65 | Buying | 5 |
0.4%
|
| 66 | Buying to supplement home produce | 3 |
0.3%
|
| 67 | Collecting from forest | 0 |
0%
|
| 68 | Don't know | 14 |
1.2%
|
| 69 | Food for work | 1 |
0.1%
|
| 70 | Go back to the land | 3 |
0.3%
|
| 71 | God provides | 3 |
0.3%
|
| 72 | From renting house | 1 |
0.1%
|
| 73 | Selling goods | 1 |
0.1%
|
| 74 | Struggling (retrenchment) | 0 |
0%
|
| 75 | Sleep/go without food | 3 |
0.3%
|
| 76 | Selling illegal brew | 1 |
0.1%
|
| 77 | Get food from church | 0 |
0%
|
| 78 | Wife provides | 1 |
0.1%
|
| 79 | Work in Tanzanian farms | 1 |
0.1%
|
| 80 | Get it from well-wishers | 0 |
0%
|
| 96 | No further response | 1 |
0.1%
|
| 98 | Refused | 7 |
0.6%
|
| 99 | Missing | 11 |
0.9%
|
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
Respondent could give up to three answers.