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2015 Population and Housing Census - IPUMS Subset

Sierra Leone, 2015
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SLE_2015_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
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Statistics Sierra Leone (SLL), IPUMS
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Access to any agricultural facility (SL2015A_AGRICFAC)

Data file: SLE2015_PHC-H-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 283
End: 283
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
A1. Does this household undertake any agricultural activities (e.g.: farming, fishing, animal husbandry, etc.)?</p>
<div class="i1">[] 1. Yes<br />[] 2. No<br /><br />If no, go to Section VI</div><p>A8. Do household members have access to the following agricultural facilities?</p>
<div class="i1">1 Tractors</div><div class="i2">[] 1 Yes<br />[] 2 No</div><div class="i1">2 Power tillers</div><div class="i2">[] 1 Yes<br />[] 2 No</div><div class="i1">3 Threshers</div><div class="i2">[] 1 Yes<br />[] 2 No</div><div class="i1">4 Rice mills</div><div class="i2">[] 1 Yes<br />[] 2 No</div><div class="i1">5 Stores</div><div class="i2">[] 1 Yes<br />[] 2 No</div><div class="i1">6 Drying floors</div><div class="i2">[] 1 Yes<br />[] 2 No</div><div class="i1">7 Cassava grater</div><div class="i2">[] 1 Yes<br />[] 2 No</div><div class="i1">8 Oil palm pressers</div><div class="i2">[] 1 Yes<br />[] 2 No</div><div class="i1">9 Agricultural business centers (ABC)</div><div class="i2">[] 1 Yes<br />[] 2 No</div>
Categories
Value Category
1 Yes
2 No
9 NIU (not in universe)
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
<span class="h3"> Section 5: Agricultural Module</span></p>

<p>210. This section asks questions of major agricultural activities undertaken by household members. Ask if any member in the household is engaged in agricultural activities like the cultivation of crops and the rearing of animals such as sheep, goats, chickens etc. If any member is engaged in Agricultural activity (ies) record '1' for "yes" in A1. If no member is engaged in agricultural activity (ties) record '2' and skip to section VI.</p>

<p>211. If there is only one member engaged in agricultural activity, the household is considered as being engaged in Agricultural activity. Always make sure that you verify that no member in the household is engaged in agricultural activity before doing you entries. Some people may think that being engaged in agricultural activity means doing large farming or only has to do with the planting of crops. Explained to the respondent what 'being engaged' in agricultural activity really means in order to get the correct response.</p>

<p><span class="em">A8 - Access to agricultural facilities</span>
<br />221. These questions are asking about access to the facilities and not ownership. Ask 'do household members have access to (name of facility)?' taking each facility in turn.</p>

<p>222. The answer is either '1' for yes, or '2' for no.</p>

<p>223. See more details and table of conversion in Annexes 3 and 4.</p>

<p><span class="em">Annex 3: Agricultural module guide (section 5) major agricultural activities undertaken by the household</span></p>

<p>A12-A20: Do household members have access to agricultural facilities?
<br />Record 1 if Yes or 2 if No</p>

<p>This section seeks to examine household members having usage of agricultural facilities and not ownership.</p>
<div class="i1">All the above four component must be in place to qualify an agricultural facility to an abc.</div><div class="i2">Stores: Not necessarily four components. Eg<br />1. Building and dry floor or<br />2. Building, dry floor and milling machine or<br />3. Only building etc.</div>

Description

Definition
This variable indicates the access to any agricultural facility in the household.
Universe
Sierra Leone 2015: Occupied private households [discrepancies: none]

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Other Household Variables -- HOUSEHOLD IPUMS
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