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Rwanda 2010 cooking fuel for wealth index [message #4236] Thu, 23 April 2015 00:56 Go to next message
cne2109 is currently offline  cne2109
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Hi,
I am working with child recode Rwanda 2000/2005/2010 replicating a wealth index build with 6 assets, and one of them is the type of cooking fuel used in the house. While the code for 2000, 2005 makes sense, the labeling in 2010 does not. I've read the report and it says that 77% of the houses use wood but the numbers for 2010 look like this:

type of cooking | Year
fuel | 2010 | Total
--------------------+-----------+----------
kerosene | 2 | 2
firewood/straw | 893 | 893
dung | 6,989 | 6,989
9 | 997 | 997
10 | 16 | 16
11 | 2 | 2
95 | 3 | 3
other | 9 | 9
not dejure resident | 91 | 91
--------------------+-----------+----------
Total | 9,002 | 9,002

I am working only with the data from the child-recode, but still, previous years look more consistent:



type of cooking | Year
fuel | 2000 2005 | Total
--------------------+----------------------+----------
electricity | 16 1 | 17
lpg/natural gas | 1 3 | 4
kerosene | 3 1 | 4
coal/lignite | 41 4 | 45
charcoal | 1,027 276 | 1,303
firewood/straw | 5,181 3,478 | 8,659
dung | 7 3 | 10
other | 8 0 | 8
not dejure resident | 40 19 | 59
99 | 0 3 | 3
--------------------+----------------------+----------
Total | 6,324 3,788 | 10,112


coded wrong? coded differently?? Also what the 9 and the 11 mean in the 2010??

Thanks for the help, in advance!!

C
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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