| Value |
Category |
| A lot of prayers |
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| Adjusted our house budget, reduced unnessary expenses |
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| Already relocated to upcountry |
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| Alternative |
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| Avoid luxuries e.g weekend getaways and stick to basic needs |
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| Avoid unnecessary expenditure |
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| Balance the cost of living |
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| Biz |
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| Budget adjustment/ tighten |
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| Budget and asked for food from our rural home farm |
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| Budget for the most basic needs/ items only |
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| Buy more and stock for longer use and cut budget |
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| Casual work |
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| Change the mode of living |
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| Changed business: was selling clothes,now I sell groceries |
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| Concerate more in farming |
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| Continue with the business |
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| Continuing with the business |
|
| Continuing with the business hoping things will open up |
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| Cut and reduced budget |
|
| Cut and reduce budget |
|
| Cut and reduced budget |
|
| Cut and reduced bugdet |
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| Cut and reduced buget |
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| Cut budet |
|
| Cut budget |
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| Cut buget |
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| Cut of expenditure |
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| Cut on household budget,spend on basic items only |
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| Cut the cost of living |
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| Debts- take foodstuff/ items from shop on credit |
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| Depend on her children |
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| Depend on produce from the farm |
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| Depend/ get support from family and relatives |
|
| Depending on relatives |
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| Depends on help from others |
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| Do casual jobs |
|
| Do casual jobs |
|
| Do farming |
|
| Do farming more to get surplus for sale |
|
| Do more farming |
|
| Do other casual works |
|
| Do some farming in my free time |
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| Doing agriculture |
|
| Doing agriculture so that not to miss meals and sell some |
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| Doing agriculture to produce food and avoid buying |
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| Doing casual jobs |
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| Doing casual jobs to keep going |
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| Doing extra side hustle like keeping goats and chicken to supplement food supply at home |
|
| Doing farming |
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| Doing multiple jobs |
|
| Doing other businesses shop mpesa for kids |
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| Doing other businesses which involve food supply since most people right now are prioritizing food |
|
| Doing other casual work like washing clothes for other people in the estate |
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| Doing small farming .and selling products |
|
| Doing small scale farming |
|
| Dépend on my grown up children/relatives |
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| Dépend on children for financial support |
|
| Dépend on relatives |
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| Eat what is available excluding food preferences |
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| Eat what is left in the hotel. |
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| Engaged in farm work |
|
| Enganging more in farming |
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| Expand business through savings |
|
| Expand farming |
|
| Expanding business |
|
| Extra effort in doing business |
|
| Farm |
|
| Farm8ng |
|
| Farming |
|
| Farming and business |
|
| Farming and selling produce |
|
| Farming for consumption |
|
| Farming to produce food for consumption |
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| Farming, avoid unnecessary expenditure |
|
| Farming, business |
|
| Farming, started business |
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| Finding new ways of bringing income |
|
| Finding new ways of living |
|
| Finding ways of budget reducation |
|
| Focus in farming |
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| Focusing all energies on getting food |
|
| Forging on hoping for the best |
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| Get capital to start a business |
|
| Get help from family members |
|
| Getting foodstuffs from upcountries |
|
| Getting help from children |
|
| Getting help from family and friends |
|
| Getting help from friends |
|
| Getting help from her children |
|
| Getting help from relatives |
|
| Getting help from relatives and friends/well wishers |
|
| Go out and look for manual jobs when not farming |
|
| God will make a way |
|
| Going up country to cut on cost and do agriculture |
|
| Going up country where they can rely on agriculture produce |
|
| Gone back to farming |
|
| Has advised her sons to Move from urban areas to upcountries,to avoid rent,share responsibilities in the household |
|
| Has already relocated to upcountry |
|
| Has started a business for wife |
|
| Have already relocated to upcountry |
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| Hawking clothes |
|
| Help from friends |
|
| Help from friends and family |
|
| Help from my children |
|
| Help from neighbors who farm |
|
| Help from the church, started a small business |
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| Hired someone brings money twice or once a week depending on how she sells |
|
| Hoping and praying for the best to revive business after Covid19 |
|
| Hoping for things to open up |
|
| Hoping to get samaritan to help him |
|
| Hustling from kthers |
|
| I already set a business me and my husband |
|
| I am just hustling up and down |
|
| I depend on children |
|
| I do consultancy |
|
| I do farming |
|
| I do nothing |
|
| I farm the little I sell is what we eat |
|
| I go wash clothes for money |
|
| I have chicken that I rear, vegetables farming and bananas |
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| I have relocated to upcountry |
|
| I just depend on my children, family members |
|
| I opened a small shop |
|
| I opened a small business |
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| I operate a bodaboda (Rider)as a side hustle when there is no casual labour |
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| I rear chicken so I sell eggs |
|
| I rely on my children |
|
| I rely on my small business |
|
| I use the little that I get, reduced budget. |
|
| I used to work more than I used to |
|
| I was thinking of cooking some mandazi and selling |
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| Improve on farming |
|
| Increase poultry farming ,cutting expenses,even. Eg public transport instead of fueling,reducing power supply |
|
| Invest coffee dividends |
|
| Invest savings |
|
| Invest the savings |
|
| Is currently at upcountry after losing his job |
|
| Just business I use the little that I get |
|
| Just continue hoping for the best |
|
| Just continuing with the business |
|
| Just rely on to help us by going to church |
|
| Just struggling with my business |
|
| Just struggling with retail shop |
|
| Just struggling with the business |
|
| Just struggling with the business i have |
|
| Just surviving |
|
| Just use what I get |
|
| Just wait |
|
| Just wash clothes for others we just look for casual jobs |
|
| Just work with the little small |
|
| Lease land to do farming |
|
| Leased a farm |
|
| Leave it to God |
|
| Leverage on agriculture |
|
| Limit spendings |
|
| Loan out from different shops |
|
| Look for casual labor |
|
| Look for money to start poultry farming |
|
| Look for other opportunities |
|
| Look for other side hustle i.e selling groundnuts |
|
| Looking for a job |
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| Looking for capital to start a business |
|
| Looking for casual jobs |
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| Looking for hustles |
|
| Looking for new ways of cutting cost |
|
| Looking for new ways of generating income |
|
| Looking for new ways to adapt as a mode of living |
|
| Looking for new ways to earn income |
|
| Looking for other sources of income |
|
| Looking for, side hustles |
|
| Majoring on Jua kali |
|
| Minimal expenses |
|
| Minimize on household spendings |
|
| Minimizing expenses |
|
| Minimizing spending |
|
| Minimizing spending or avoiding unnecessary expenses |
|
| More effort |
|
| Move to a more affordable house to be able to pay my rent |
|
| Moved to upcountry |
|
| Moved upcountry until covid ends |
|
| Moving back to rural areas |
|
| My caretakers are involving themselves in hustling |
|
| My husband does casual jobs |
|
| My husband does casual jobs so the little we get is what we use |
|
| NA |
|
| New sources for income |
|
| No plan |
|
| No plan yet |
|
| No plans just relying on the litte that is available |
|
| None |
|
| Nothing |
|
| Nothing but praying |
|
| Nothing doings at moment |
|
| Nothing other than hoping for things to open up |
|
| Nothing to do |
|
| Nothing yet |
|
| O |
|
| One of the family member is now doing music the other things business |
|
| Open saloon on my own |
|
| Opening a small kiosk |
|
| Opted to alternative foods Planted more crops to compensate for the cut budget |
|
| Other biz |
|
| Other family members assist in provision of food |
|
| Pension and help from children |
|
| Perseverance |
|
| Perseverance and hoping things will return to normal |
|
| Planning to add more stoke,leaving to God |
|
| Planning to go to upcountry to start farming |
|
| Planning to open business |
|
| Planning to start a Business |
|
| Planning to start a business once we get the money |
|
| Planning to start agribusiness |
|
| Planning to start small business |
|
| Plans to revive his business |
|
| Plant more crops for compensation of the cut budget |
|
| Practicing Farming |
|
| Pray to God |
|
| Pray to God for normalcy to return |
|
| Praying |
|
| Praying to God and hoping children are going to go back to work |
|
| Praying and hoping well wishers will give a helping hand |
|
| Praying for God's intervention |
|
| Praying to God |
|
| Praying to God and expanding business by buying land |
|
| Praying to God for intervention |
|
| Prioritize expenditure on food and avoiding unnecessary spending |
|
| Prioritize on food |
|
| Prioritize on meals |
|
| Pushing on |
|
| Pushing on and managing |
|
| Put more effort and start a business |
|
| Reduce cost of living |
|
| Reduce expediture |
|
| Reduce expenditure |
|
| Reduce the business stock to avoid loss |
|
| Reduce the cost |
|
| Reduce the cost of living |
|
| Reduce the sales of her farm products for them to be used in the household |
|
| Reduced and cut budget |
|
| Reduced bedget |
|
| Reduced budget |
|
| Reduced expenditure |
|
| Reduced expenditure, stooped using LPG to firewood |
|
| Reduced expenses |
|
| Reduced meals and rely agriculture produce |
|
| Reduced the cost of living |
|
| Reduced the luxury expenses like going for eateries, swimming and outings |
|
| Reducing expenses on luxurious items |
|
| Reducing on spending.e.g traveling |
|
| Reducing the cost of living |
|
| Relaying on family members |
|
| Relocate to upcountry |
|
| Relocated to Muranga for now |
|
| Rely mostly on agriculture and focusing all energies towards growing food |
|
| Rely on agriculture |
|
| Rely on agriculture produce and cutting on budget |
|
| Rely on family and friends |
|
| Rely on friends and family |
|
| Rely on pension |
|
| Rely on savings |
|
| Rely on siblings |
|
| Rely on the produce we get from our farm |
|
| Rely on the spouse |
|
| Relying on agriculture and rationing the food available |
|
| Relying on family members |
|
| Relying on friends for help |
|
| Relying on friends.cant go to work because she is care giver to sick husband |
|
| Relying on relatives |
|
| Relying on relatives and friends |
|
| Resort to farming full time |
|
| Reviving the collapsing business |
|
| Searching for a job |
|
| Seek for help or start a business |
|
| Seeking food donations once in a while |
|
| Seeking help from relatives |
|
| Sell assets |
|
| Sell farm produce |
|
| Sell housewares |
|
| Sell pigs since I have pigs but it is challenge |
|
| Sell some domestic animals |
|
| Sell some few goats and start a small business |
|
| Sell sugarcane |
|
| Selling a plot to cater for household needs |
|
| Selling farm produce |
|
| Selling farm products/Focus in farming |
|
| Sent for food from the village |
|
| Sharing meals with her children who previously were cooking separately |
|
| Sharing of finsncial responsibility in the house |
|
| She reduced amounts of some some cereals and fruits she usualy buys while cut off some completely. |
|
| Shift to another profitable business |
|
| Shifted to another business that would bring good income |
|
| Since am a driver,when am sent for delivery/ supplies: I get banana from upcountry and I sell them here in the city |
|
| Skip some necessities and spending on the basic ones |
|
| Skip unimportant things |
|
| Small business |
|
| Small farming |
|
| Small scale Farming |
|
| Small scale farming |
|
| Source more way for income |
|
| Spend money on necessary things only ( most important) |
|
| Spend the little she is left with |
|
| Start a groceries business |
|
| Start a Business |
|
| Start a business |
|
| Start biz |
|
| Start business |
|
| Start doing agriculture |
|
| Start growing vegetables and sell just outside the house |
|
| Start multiple business:to compliment my clothes business as it has gone down |
|
| Start small business |
|
| Start small scale business |
|
| Started a Business |
|
| Started a new business which is still picking |
|
| Started a small business |
|
| Started agriculture |
|
| Started another business |
|
| Started busines |
|
| Started business |
|
| Started poultry farming |
|
| Started small business |
|
| Starting a business |
|
| Starting asmall kiosk |
|
| Starting asmall scale business |
|
| Starting new business,farming |
|
| Starting other different businesses |
|
| Starting small farming for upkeep |
|
| Starting small scale farming |
|
| Starting small time farming and poultry keeping |
|
| Starting up small business |
|
| Stay with my daughter/ son who takes care of me at her/ his place |
|
| Stayed at home,no capital/ business stock finished and no rent to pay business premise |
|
| Still continuing with business hopefully things will open up |
|
| Still pushing on with the business and hoping for the best |
|
| Struggle with what I get |
|
| Struggling with the little he has |
|
| Struggling with the situation |
|
| Support from children |
|
| Supported by children |
|
| Supported by my Children/ relatives |
|
| Survive on savings, start business |
|
| Sustain myself with what I get |
|
| Take my family to rural home. |
|
| Taking advance at work |
|
| Taking things from shop on credit |
|
| The little I get is what we use |
|
| Tight budgeting in the house,buy the necessities only |
|
| To boost business |
|
| To cut cost of living.. |
|
| To plant potatoes, cabbage, kales to get food to eat at home without having to buy. |
|
| To pray to God . Farming at home |
|
| To start business |
|
| Told the wife to go upcountry to cut cost, reduce luxury |
|
| Travelled back to rural home, lost her husband |
|
| Travelled to the village relies on farming |
|
| Travelled upcountry |
|
| Trusting God |
|
| Trusting in God for better days. |
|
| Trusting n exploring new income |
|
| Try Farming |
|
| Try to adjust to the situation |
|
| Try to be patient |
|
| Try to do some little farming |
|
| Try to start up small business |
|
| Trying agriculture and poultry farming |
|
| Trying another business |
|
| Trying farming |
|
| Trying to start business |
|
| Trying to start other businesses |
|
| Turned to farming- for commercial purpose |
|
| Use money sparingly by buying most urgent items for example drugs,strips for glucometer |
|
| Use my savings to start up business |
|
| Use the litte I get |
|
| Use the litte I get , support from parents |
|
| Use the little I get |
|
| Used savings |
|
| Used to plant vegetables and sell |
|
| Venture in Farming to sustain the family |
|
| Ventured in other businesses, farming |
|
| Ventured in other small business |
|
| Ventured into farming |
|
| Ventured into farming business |
|
| Ventured into small business |
|
| Very old depends on others |
|
| Waiting for God |
|
| Waiting for business to pick |
|
| Waiting for things to normalize |
|
| Waiting for well wishers |
|
| Waiting for well wishers for help |
|
| Waiting for well wishers.. |
|
| Waiting on God |
|
| Waiting on god |
|
| Waiting upon God |
|
| Was receiving money from Give direct ksh 3000 but they stopped 2 months ago now I just hustle by washing clothes |
|
| We are just struggling with the situation |
|
| We depend on the farm produce |
|
| We have reduced no of vehicles we were using as a family,rented part of the home space |
|
| What we get is what we use |
|
| When I finish ny shift at 1.00 pm I do some trading of items just outside the house |
|
| Work extra hard |
|
| Work extra harder |
|
| Work for 2 different employers in shifts |
|
| Work for extra hours to see if I can improve on earnings |
|
| Work hard with my farming |
|
| Work harder |
|
| Working extra hard for example in agriculture |
|
| Working harder |
|
| have no plan |
|
| reduced expenditure on leisure things |
|
| rely on relatives |
|
| selling farm produce |
|
| started farming |
|
| used savings |
|
| used the family saving |
|
| work extra hard |
|
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.
