Greater Eldoret Health and Development Survey (Round 1) 2004

Kenya, 2004

Markus Goldstein and Harsha Thirumurthy

CSV JSON

Since Jan 2003 provided any money or goods (trb01)

Data file: transfers

Overview

Valid: 1210

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 2

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

Since January 2003, have you provided any money or goods to persons who are not members of your household? For example, to children, parents, friends or relatives living elsewhere?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Yes	541	44.7%
2	No	669	55.3%

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.

Question post text

If no, probe for gifts, money given for funerals, child support, weddings, goods or money to help sick persons - since January 2003 (Exclude transfers for schooling expenses and gifts of land). Refer back to the household roster on children living elsewhere and ask about gifts, loans and transfers to these children.

If answer is 2 > Go to 9 (trb09 - variable name in dataset).

Description

Source of information

Both the primary male and female respondents.