Labour Force Survey 2018
Gambia, The, 2018
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GMB_2018_LFS_v01_M
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OTHER SPECIFY (other_im5)
Data file: LFS_Final
Overview
Valid:
143
Invalid:
-
Type:
Discrete
Range:
-
Format:
character
Questions and instructions
Literal question
What were the three the main reasons (starting with the most important) for moving to this village/town/city?
Categories
| Value | Category |
|---|---|
| Apperentice | |
| Apprentice | |
| CLOSER TO WORK PLACE | |
| Came with Dad | |
| Came with the sister. | |
| Family business | |
| Farming | |
| Father brought me here | |
| His dad passed away and he to | |
| I was called to be the Imam o | |
| ILLNESS | |
| Move closer to workplace | |
| Moved in with the family | |
| Moved with the family | |
| Return back home | |
| Return back to hometown | |
| Return to his home town | |
| Senegal | |
| Someone gave a plot to my husb | |
| To learn a skill | |
| To learn a trade | |
| \n | |
| adopted | |
| apprentice | |
| because he lost his mother | |
| because my house was redy | |
| bilding my house | |
| break making | |
| business | |
| business\n | |
| bussness | |
| came back from senegal to stay | |
| came to gambia to see my hosba | |
| capentry apprantise | |
| compound owner asked him to go | |
| compound owner asked them to g | |
| dad died and he moved | |
| dad moved to new house | |
| dad passed away | |
| dad passed away and she moved | |
| divorce | |
| divorced | |
| ejection by landlords | |
| ejection by landlords\n | |
| ejection bylandlords | |
| ejection from tenants | |
| farming | |
| fire broke out in the dwelling | |
| foitball | |
| follo famelly | |
| followed husband | |
| friendship\n | |
| gahna | |
| given to me | |
| guinea | |
| guinea bissau | |
| guinean | |
| have bilded my ompound | |
| he is a guinean | |
| health | |
| health reason | |
| holiday | |
| house too far from main road | |
| husband passed away | |
| husband passesd away and she c | |
| i came here to find work and t | |
| i cant pay rent\n | |
| i come here because i like gam | |
| i have my compound | |
| illness | |
| invincible | |
| just has a feeling of moving i | |
| landlord asked them to leave | |
| living with child | |
| mali | |
| move because of the death of h | |
| move to my compound\n\n | |
| muretania | |
| my house boon | |
| needed medical cear | |
| no reason, just by choice | |
| own compound | |
| own compound\n | |
| own privacy | |
| owner gave him notoce to leave | |
| parent moved here | |
| problem | |
| problem\n | |
| renting in friends house | |
| retired from the service so he | |
| return back to hometown | |
| return from education persuit | |
| senegal | |
| she is from cassamance | |
| sickness | |
| sold my compound | |
| the compound i was living prev | |
| the compound was sold | |
| the family house was so small | |
| the onner needs the place | |
| to come and help the family | |
| training | |
| travelled and came back but th | |
| treatment | |
| vist | |
| want the famelly to be thogede | |
| want the famelly to bee thogde | |
| want the famelly to bee thoged | |
| war | |
| was renting | |
| with parents |
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.
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