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Re: Rwanda 2010 cooking fuel for wealth index [message #4392 is a reply to message #4236] Tue, 19 May 2015 10:08 Go to previous message
Liz-DHS
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Registered: February 2013
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Dear User,
I checked with one of our experts Mr. Han Raggers and he had the following frequency:
Item HV226: Type of cooking fuel
... tbd-name: '.RECODE6.RECH2.HV226'
                                _____________________________ _____________
Categories                           Frequency       CumFreq      %  Cum %
_______________________________ _____________________________ _____________
  1 Electricity                              2              2    0.0    0.0
  2 LPG                                      1              3    0.0    0.0
  3 Natural gas                              4              7    0.0    0.1
  4 Biogas                                   3             10    0.0    0.1
  5 Kerosene                                13             22    0.1    0.2
  7 Charcoal                              1201           1223    9.6    9.8
  8 Wood                                  9621          10843   76.7   86.5
  9 Straw/shrubs/grass                    1500          12343   12.0   98.4
10 Agricultural crop                       20          12364    0.2   98.6
11 Animal dung                              1          12365    0.0   98.6
95 No food cooked in house                152          12517    1.2   99.8
96 Other                                   21          12538    0.2  100.0
Missing                                     2          12540    0.0  100.0
_______________________________ _____________________________ _____________
TOTAL                                   12540          12540  100.0  100.0
It would be good to know which data set exactly is being used and whether this was downloaded from the DHS site.
The weighted frequencies for the households, for Rwanda 2010 (rwir61.dat) If you still have questions, please feel free to post again.

[Updated on: Fri, 22 May 2015 08:54]

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