Afrobarometer Survey 2002, Round 2
Ghana, 2002
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Q5a. First meaning of "poor" (q5a)
Data file: gha_r2_data.sav
Overview
Valid:
1200
Invalid:
-
Minimum:
0
Maximum:
999
Type:
Discrete
Decimal:
0
Start:
101
End:
103
Width:
3
Range:
0 - 999
Format:
Numeric
Questions and instructions
Literal question
5. In your opinion, what does it mean to be “poor”?
A. First meaning of “poor”
A. First meaning of “poor”
Categories
| Value | Category | Cases | |
|---|---|---|---|
| -1 | Missing data | 0 |
0%
|
| 0 | Nothing | 3 |
0.3%
|
| 1 | Lack of food | 219 |
18.3%
|
| 2 | Lack of shelter | 51 |
4.3%
|
| 3 | Lack of clothing | 45 |
3.8%
|
| 4 | Lack of money | 355 |
29.6%
|
| 5 | Low living standards | 63 |
5.3%
|
| 6 | Lack of social amenities | 13 |
1.1%
|
| 7 | Lack of education/knowledge | 9 |
0.8%
|
| 8 | Lack of employment/job | 198 |
16.5%
|
| 9 | Low levels of health | 63 |
5.3%
|
| 10 | Powerlessness | 2 |
0.2%
|
| 11 | Living in substandard neighborhood | 1 |
0.1%
|
| 12 | Any life-threatening situation | 1 |
0.1%
|
| 13 | No child/spouse/unable to marry a wife | 3 |
0.3%
|
| 14 | Comparison between self and others, inability to meet expect | 5 |
0.4%
|
| 15 | Lack of entertainment (newspaper,TV,Radio,Video) | 1 |
0.1%
|
| 16 | Psychological status/mental health | 2 |
0.2%
|
| 17 | Exploitive labor (e.g. child labor, prostitution, etc) | 1 |
0.1%
|
| 18 | Lack of agricultural inputs (land/fertilizers/seeds) | 3 |
0.3%
|
| 19 | Race (associates black with poverty) | 2 |
0.2%
|
| 20 | Laziness/person who won't work | 13 |
1.1%
|
| 21 | Lack of family/social support network | 15 |
1.3%
|
| 22 | Inability to meet obligations/family responsibilities | 30 |
2.5%
|
| 23 | Beggar/destitute | 6 |
0.5%
|
| 24 | Unreligious | 0 |
0%
|
| 25 | A farmer | 0 |
0%
|
| 26 | Poverty (undifferentiated/unspecified) | 7 |
0.6%
|
| 27 | No water | 0 |
0%
|
| 28 | No electricity | 0 |
0%
|
| 29 | No cattle or livestock | 6 |
0.5%
|
| 30 | No land | 0 |
0%
|
| 31 | No vehicle/car | 1 |
0.1%
|
| 32 | In debt | 0 |
0%
|
| 33 | To have too many children to support | 1 |
0.1%
|
| 34 | To be a single parent | 0 |
0%
|
| 35 | To be old/a pensioner | 0 |
0%
|
| 36 | To depend on or revert to crime | 1 |
0.1%
|
| 37 | To only live for today/live day-to-day/no future planning | 2 |
0.2%
|
| 38 | To depend on domestic work/manual labor | 1 |
0.1%
|
| 39 | To have to rely on others for help | 4 |
0.3%
|
| 40 | Low social status/no community standing | 1 |
0.1%
|
| 41 | Street children/living on the street | 0 |
0%
|
| 42 | To be an alcoholic or drug addict | 0 |
0%
|
| 43 | Unable to contribute to the country | 0 |
0%
|
| 50 | Lack of everything/not having anything | 23 |
1.9%
|
| 51 | Handicapped | 18 |
1.5%
|
| 52 | Racism/Suffering from discrimination | 0 |
0%
|
| 53 | without love or affection | 0 |
0%
|
| 54 | sad, miserable, poor of spirit(state of mind) | 0 |
0%
|
| 55 | difficult/terrible/bad life | 2 |
0.2%
|
| 56 | lack of opportunities or possibilities | 1 |
0.1%
|
| 57 | lack of common sense | 0 |
0%
|
| 58 | a natural condition | 1 |
0.1%
|
| 59 | national problem/condition | 1 |
0.1%
|
| 995 | Other | 17 |
1.4%
|
| 996 | No further answer | 0 |
0%
|
| 998 | Refused to answer | 2 |
0.2%
|
| 999 | Don't know | 7 |
0.6%
|
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.