Exploration & description/Ownership

The total number of categories is shown to be 220, which is more than the number of homesteads, 163. As a result, the percentages of homesteads in which a particular category of ownership occurred do not add up to 100 percent. Again this can be seen to be a feature of multiple response data.

The tables show that ownership of cattle mainly rested with the head of the homestead. This was more so when the head was a male. The tables do not show, however, those homesteads where ownership is restricted to only one category, i.e. all cattle owned by one member. Therefore, we used the Advanced Filter command in Microsoft Excel to identify the relevant homesteads where this was the case and then constructed a new variable (factor) indicating whether the head only or spouse only, etc. owned all the cattle in the homestead.