Integrated Household Survey 2010-2011

Gambia, 2010 - 2011

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GMB_2010-2011_IHS_v01_EN_M_v01_A_OCS

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The Gambia Bureau of Statistics

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What is poverty in your opinion? (s11q1_1)

Data file: GMB_2010_IHS Part 1-Section 11 Perception about Poverty

Overview

Valid: 4757

Invalid: 24

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 39

End: 40

Width: 2

Range: 1 - 99

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Question pretext

To be answered by household heads or persons to represent them only

Literal question

What is poverty in your opinion - 1?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Illiteracy	1144	24%
2	Lack of farming implements	307	6.5%
3	Someone who is unable to meet his basic needs	2741	57.6%
4	Inability to develop infrastructure in his/her residence	43	0.9%
5	Poor health	178	3.7%
6	Self isolation	7	0.1%
7	Always looking and surviving on hired labor	34	0.7%
8	Coaxing	4	0.1%
9	Inadequate feeding	105	2.2%
10	Poor diet	62	1.3%
11	Poor and inadequate clothing	16	0.3%
12	Poor housing conditions and furniture	8	0.2%
13	Low income	64	1.3%
14	Lack of farming inputs	1	0%
15	High dependency ratio	5	0.1%
16	Land infertile for maximum production	0	0%
17	Unemployed	27	0.6%
99	Other specify	11	0.2%
Sysmiss		24

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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