| Value | Category | 
                                    
                    
                        | -5 | other | 
                                    
                    
                        | -4 | missing data | 
                                    
                    
                        | -3 | refused to answer | 
                                    
                    
                        | -2 | not applicable | 
                                    
                    
                        | -1 | do not know | 
                                    
                    
                        | 1 | could not afford school fees or other expenses | 
                                    
                    
                        | 2 | working for money/working on farm/looking for paid work | 
                                    
                    
                        | 3 | looking after a sick family member | 
                                    
                    
                        | 4 | looking after younger children/other domestic work | 
                                    
                    
                        | 5 | death family member/attending funeral or other family event | 
                                    
                    
                        | 6 | was too sick/too disabled | 
                                    
                    
                        | 7 | was expelled from school | 
                                    
                    
                        | 8 | fear of bullying/other children/teacher | 
                                    
                    
                        | 9 | making poor progress/unable to cope with work | 
                                    
                    
                        | 10 | did not want to attend school | 
                                    
                    
                        | 11 | quality of teaching poor/classes disrupted | 
                                    
                    
                        | 12 | denied place in calss | 
                                    
                    
                        | 13 | became pregnant | 
                                    
                    
                        | 14 | social unrest/violence in community | 
                                    
                    
                        | 15 | other | 
                            
            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.