Nairobi Cross-sectional Slums Survey (NCSS), 2012, 2nd Survey

KENYA, 2012
Population Dynamics and Urbanization in Africa (PDAU)

African Population & Health Research Center

CSV JSON

age at which young person began begging on the street (wom_man_q1246)

Data file: NCSS 2012 WOMEN+MEN CHARACTERISTICS ANALYTICAL FILE

Overview

vald 6562

invd 41

Interval discrete

Decimal 0

Range 5 - 9999995

Questions and instructions

Literal question

How old were you when you first did it?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
5		1	0%
7		1	0%
10		1	0%
13		2	0%
14		1	0%
16		2	0%
17		2	0%
20		1	0%
98	don't know	0	0%
99	not applicable	6305	96.1%
9999995	missing:impute	246	3.7%
Sysmiss		41

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

Question post text

Interviewer instructions

Qs 1245-1247 Capture information on any episode of the young woman's life spent on the streets begging, why she went to beg and the age at which she first went to the streets to beg.

Description

Text

Age at which individual began begging on the street

Universe

All individuals aged 12-24 years who have ever begged on the street according to wom_man_q1244