Data in Emergencies Monitoring System - Household Survey 2024, Round 5

Cameroon, 2024

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Reference ID

CMR_2024_DIEM-HS-R5_v01_M_v01_A_ESS

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Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Data in Emergencies Hub, Office of Emergencies and Resilience

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Documentation in PDF DDI/XML JSON

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Jan 20, 2026

Last modified

Jan 20, 2026

Question asked: 'What is the main source of light in your dwelling?' (hh_wealth_light)

Data file: anon_dfCMR_R5

Overview

Valid: 4200

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Width: 8

Range: 1 - 6

Format: Numeric

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Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Candle	35	0.8%
2	Electricity (from generator or electrical grid)	2997	71.4%
3	Lamp with batteries	355	8.5%
4	Other (no electric supply to the house)	29	0.7%
5	Petrol lamp	255	6.1%
6	Solar panel	529	12.6%

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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