Study 3 Endline - Variable Construction

Cleaning endline data

Functions

Load Data

Descriptive variables

Condition and stratification variables

Constructing psychosocial variables

Indices: ment_hlth_std, gse_std, mobility_std, personal_omni_std, partner_dyn_std, hh_dyn_std, decision_std, standing_std, support_asp_std, cohes_asp_std, relational_omni_std, psychosocial_omni_std

Composite Indices: personal_omni_std, relational_omni_std, psychosocial_omni_std

Economic outcomes

Indices: hh_food_sec, diet_div, ben_bus_engage_std, ben_bus_perform_std,

Composite Indices: hh_food_omni_std, ben_bus_omni_std, ben_econ_omni_std

Business outcomes

Beneficiary non-agricultural businesses • bus_num_tot: Count of household non-agricultural business in last 12 months in: food transformation, commerce, other non- agricultural, other • bus2_date_pstyr: Count of businesses started in the last year • bus_future_num_grow: Count of businesses intends to expand business (vs maintain or abandon) • bus_assval_tot_wins: Estimated value of non-agricultural activity assets, winsorized at 98p • bus_invests_win: Estimated investment in non-agricultural business, winsorized at 98p

Earnings in beneficiary non-agricultural businesses

• bus_rev_tot_wins • bus_prof_tot_wins

Beneficiary business values

##   98% 
## 30000

##    98% 
## 235180

##    98% 
## 188130

##    98% 
## 130000

##   98% 
## 40000

Household business values

##    98% 
## 340760

##   98% 
## 20260

##    98% 
## 334100

##    98% 
## 141810

Food security

Immediate Effects of Personal vs Interpersonal Initiative

Data loading and cleaning

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##   1   642   634
##   2    24    32

Variable Construction

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