UPHD - Survey on Social, Health and Overall wellbeing of older people (50+ years)

KENYA, 2006 - 2010
Population Dynamics and Urbanization in Africa (PDAU)

African Population & Health Research Center,

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10.1-no of close friends (v1001)

Data file: AllWavesCombined

Overview

vald 5881

invd 10

Interval discrete

Decimal 0

Range 0 - 99

Questions and instructions

Literal question

10.1 How many people do you have whom you consider as close friends?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
0		279	4.7%
1		928	15.8%
2		1111	18.9%
3		1029	17.5%
4		650	11.1%
5		679	11.5%
6		228	3.9%
7		93	1.6%
8		91	1.5%
9		50	0.9%
10		431	7.3%
11		9	0.2%
12		22	0.4%
13		5	0.1%
14		4	0.1%
15		53	0.9%
16		1	0%
17		3	0.1%
20		108	1.8%
21		2	0%
23		2	0%
24		2	0%
25		7	0.1%
30		22	0.4%
36		1	0%
40		5	0.1%
47		1	0%
50		26	0.4%
95		7	0.1%
97	refused	0	0%
98	don’t know	23	0.4%
99	missing	9	0.2%
Sysmiss		10

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 pretext

10.0 SOCIAL NETWORKING

I would like to ask you about social aspects of your life and also get your opinion on the community life in general. I will start with the social aspects of your life.

TYPE OF NETWORK and COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT

Description

Text

Number of close friends

Universe

All DSS Residents 50 years and above