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Afrobarometer Survey 2003, Round 2

Malawi, 2003
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MWI_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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Q5b. Second meaning of "poor" (q5b)

Data file: mlw_r2_data.sav

Overview

Valid: 1200
Invalid: -
Minimum: 1
Maximum: 996
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 86
End: 88
Width: 3
Range: 1 - 996
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
5. In your opinion, what does it mean to be “poor”?
B. Second meaning of “poor”
Categories
Value Category Cases
-1 Missing data 0
0%
1 Lack of food 312
26%
2 Lack of shelter 69
5.8%
3 Lack of clothing 228
19%
4 Lack of money 233
19.4%
5 Low living standards 56
4.7%
6 Lack of social amenities 14
1.2%
7 Lack of education/knowledge 5
0.4%
8 Lack of employment/job 16
1.3%
9 Low levels of health 11
0.9%
10 Powerlessness 0
0%
11 Living in substandard neighborhood 2
0.2%
12 Any life-threatening situation 6
0.5%
13 No child/spouse/unable to marry a wife 1
0.1%
14 Comparison between self and others, inability to meet expect 2
0.2%
15 Lack of entertainment (newspaper,TV,Radio,Video) 0
0%
16 Psychological status/mental health 0
0%
17 Exploitive labor (e.g. child labor, prostitution, etc) 0
0%
18 Lack of agricultural inputs (land/fertilizers/seeds) 26
2.2%
19 Race (associates black with poverty) 0
0%
20 Laziness/person who won't work 2
0.2%
21 Lack of family/social support network 3
0.3%
22 Inability to meet obligations/family responsibilities 2
0.2%
23 Beggar/destitute 4
0.3%
24 Unreligious 0
0%
25 A farmer 0
0%
26 Poverty (undifferentiated/unspecified) 9
0.8%
27 No water 0
0%
28 No electricity 0
0%
29 No cattle or livestock 11
0.9%
30 No land 7
0.6%
31 No vehicle/car 1
0.1%
32 In debt 1
0.1%
33 To have too many children to support 0
0%
34 To be a single parent 3
0.3%
35 To be old/a pensioner 2
0.2%
36 To depend on or revert to crime 1
0.1%
37 To only live for today/live day-to-day/no future planning 0
0%
38 To depend on domestic work/manual labor 0
0%
39 To have to rely on others for help 0
0%
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 1
0.1%
50 Lack of everything/not having anything 0
0%
51 Handicapped 4
0.3%
52 Racism/Suffering from discrimination 0
0%
995 Other 0
0%
996 No further answer 167
13.9%
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.
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