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Integrated Household Living Conditions Survey 2010-2011

Rwanda, 2010 - 2011
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RWA-NISR-EICV3-02
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    Survey ID number

    RWA-NISR-EICV3-02

    Title

    Integrated Household Living Conditions Survey 2010-2011

    Abbreviation or Acronym

    EICV3

    Translated Title

    Enquête Intégrale sur les conditions de vie des ménages 2010-2011

    Country
    Name Country code
    Rwanda RWA
    Study type

    Income/Expenditure/Household Survey [hh/ies]

    Series Information

    This is the third in a series of periodic standardized income and expenditure surveys. The Rwanda EICV is conducted with a periodicity of 5 years. The surveys in the series are as follows:

    EICV1 2000-2001

    EICV2 2005-2006

    EICV3 2010-2011

    Abstract

    The 2010/11 Integrated Household Living Conditions Survey or EICV3 (Enquête Intégrale sur les Conditions de Vie des Ménages) is the third in the series of surveys which started in 2000/01 and is designed to monitor poverty and living conditions in Rwanda. The survey methodology has changed little over its 10 years, making it ideal for monitoring changes in the country. In 2010/11, for the first time the achieved sample size of 14,308 households in the EICV3 was sufficient to provide estimates which are reliable at the level of the district.

    Kind of Data

    Sample survey data [ssd]

    Unit of Analysis

    For the purposes of this study, the following units of analysis are considered:

    -communities

    -households

    -persons

    Version

    Version Description

    Version 2.0: Final public-use dataset

    Version Date

    2012-10-19

    Version Notes

    Version 2.0

    The date of this version corresponds to the date of NISR approval of the final public-use datasets.

    Scope

    Notes

    The scope of survey is defined by the need to evaluate poverty determinants and effects of poverty in various domains. This includes gathering data in specific sectors and examning summary statistics and computed indicators by consumption indicator, gender etc. The survey primarily seeks to compute household consumption aggregates and correlate consumption to the following areas are within the scope and integrated into the survey:

    • Education (education expenditures): general education, curriculum, vocational training and, higher learning, school-leaving, literacy and apprenticeship.

    • Health (health expenditures): disability and health problems, general health and preventative vaccination over the past 12 months.

    • Migration (travel expenditures): rural-urban migration, internal and external migration.

    • Housing (expenditures on utilities, rent etc.): status of the housing occupancy, services and installations, physical characteristics of the dwelling, access and satisfaction towards basic services.

    • Economic activity (revenue): unemployment, underemployment and job search, occupation, wage or salaried employment characteristics, VUP Activities, all other activities, domestic work.

    • Non-agricultural activities (revenue): activity status, formal and informal sector activity.

    • Agriculture (income and expenditure) : livestock, land and agricultural equipment, details of holding parcels/blocs and agricultural policy changes, crop harvests and use on a large and small scale crop production, harvests and use, transformation (processing) of agricultural products.

    In addition to the specific sector information, consumption and/or wealth holding information was collected:

    • Consumption: Expenditure on non food items, food expenditure, subsistence farming (own consumption) with different recall periods.

    • Other cash flows : transfers out by household, transfers received by the household, income support programs & other revenues (excluding all incomes accrued from saving), VUP, UBUDEHE & RSSP schemes, other expenditure (excluding expenditures related to any form of saving).

    • Stock items: credit, durable assets and savings (household assets and liabilities)

    Topics
    Topic Vocabulary URI
    consumption/consumer behaviour [1.1] CESSDA http://www.nesstar.org/rdf/common
    economic conditions and indicators [1.2] CESSDA http://www.nesstar.org/rdf/common
    EDUCATION [6] CESSDA http://www.nesstar.org/rdf/common
    general health [8.4] CESSDA http://www.nesstar.org/rdf/common
    employment [3.1] CESSDA http://www.nesstar.org/rdf/common
    unemployment [3.5] CESSDA http://www.nesstar.org/rdf/common
    housing [10.1] CESSDA http://www.nesstar.org/rdf/common
    time use [13.9] CESSDA http://www.nesstar.org/rdf/common
    migration [14.3] CESSDA http://www.nesstar.org/rdf/common
    information technology [16.2] CESSDA http://www.nesstar.org/rdf/common

    Coverage

    Geographic Coverage

    This is a national survey with representivity at the (5) provicial and (30) district level and includes urban and rural households.

    Geographic Unit

    The cluster

    Universe

    All household members.

    Producers and sponsors

    Primary investigators
    Name Affiliation
    National Institute of Statistics of Rwanda (NISR) Ministry of finance and economics planning (MINECOFIN)
    Producers
    Name Affiliation Role
    Oxford Policy Management DFID Permanante assistance
    Geoffrey Greenwell UNDP Designer of data system
    David Megill UNDP Statistician

    Sampling

    Sampling Procedure

    The EICV3 sampled a total of 14,310 households in 1,230 sample villages.The sample selection methodology for EICV3 was based on a stratified two-stage sample design.

    At the first sampling stage the sample villages for EICV3 were selected within each stratum (district) systematically with PPS from the ordered list of villages in the sampling frame. The measure of size for each village was based on the total number of households identified in the sampling frame of villages. The villages within each district were ordered first by urban, mixed and rural areas, and then geographically by secteur, cellule and village codes. This provided implicit geographic stratification of the sampling frame for each district, and ensured a proportional allocation of the sample to the urban and rural areas of each district.

    A listing of households was conducted in each sample village prior to the EICV3 enumeration in order to select the sample households. A systematic sample of 9 households was selected from the listing for each sample village in Kigali Province and 12 households for each sample rural village in the remaining provinces. A reserve sample of 3 replacement households was selected for each sample village in Kigali Province and 4 replacement households for each sample village in the remaining provinces.

    Deviations from the Sample Design

    Two households were dropped due to incomplete data. These were in the urban zone (Kigali). These include Nyraungenge and Kikukiro. These have been adjusted in the weights.

    Response Rate

    Traditionally response rates are high in Rwanda so it is not surprising to have response rates greater than 95%. For computing the response rates, the DHS definition is used:

    1. The numerator are the number of households with a completed household interview.

    2. The denominator: is the sum of number of households with a completed household interview, households that live in the dwelling but no competent respondent was at home, households with permanently postponed or refused interviews, and households for which the dwelling was not found.

    3. Unoccupied or abandoned dwelling are excluded (no household lives in the dwelling, address is not a dwelling, or the dwelling is destroyed)

    The numerator is: 14,308

    To compute the denominator the following are considered:

    Completed 14,308

    HH not found 132

    Sick or died 59

    Refused 48

    Other 63*

    Dropped 2

    Total: 14,612

    The response rate is computed at 98%

    *Other is included in the denominator despite the uncertainty of the reason.

    **Excluded from the denominator are 368 homes that were reported abandoned or changed.

    Dwelling changed (Nyakatasi) 115

    Dwelling changed other reason 253

    Weighting

    In order for the sample estimates from the EICV3 to be representative of the population, it is necessary to multiply the data by a sampling weight, or expansion factor. The basic weight for each sample household is equal to the inverse of its probability of selection (calculated by multiplying the probabilities at each sampling stage).

    The basic weights were also adjusted to take into account the non-interviews as well as the replacement households in each sample village.

    Survey instrument

    Questionnaires

    SECTION 1: Information on members of household

    SECTION 2: Education

    PART A: General education

    PART B1: Curriculum

    PART B2: Vocational training and, higher learning

    PART C: Leaving school

    PART D: Literacy and apprenticeship

    SECTION 3: Health

    PART A: Disability and health problems during the past 2 weeks

    PART B: Health and preventative vaccination over the past 12 months

    SECTION 4: Migrations and domestic trips

    PART A: Migration

    PART B: Domestic trips

    SECTION 5: Housing

    PART A: Background and status of the housing occupancy

    PART B: Housing expenses

    PART C: Services and installations

    PART D: Physical charactaristics of the dwelling

    PART E: Access and satisfaction towards basic services

    SECTION 6A: Economic activity in last 12 months & last 7 days

    PART A: Filter questions and all the occupations you have carried out over the last 12 months.

    SECTION 6B: Unemployment, underemployment and job search

    SECTION 6C: Occupation (for members of the household aged 6 years and above who have been employed)

    SECTION 6D: Waged or salaried employment (farm and non farm)

    SECTION 7A: Non-agricultural activities (business)

    SECTION 7B: Non-agricultural activities (business))

    SECTION 8: Agriculture

    PART A1: Livestock

    PART A2: Livestock (continued) one cow per poor family policy, animals and pasture

    PART A3: Livestock (continued) sale of livestock products

    PART A4: Livestock (continued) expenditure on livestock during the last 12 months

    PART B: Land and agricultural equipments

    PART C: Details of holding parcels/blocs and agricultural policy changes

    PART D: Crop harvests and use on a large scale

    PART E: Small scale crops - harvests and use.

    PART F: Other income from agriculture

    PART G: The cost and expenditure on agricultural activities.

    PART H: Transformation (processing) of agricultural products.

    SECTION 9: Household expenditure and subsistence farming

    PART A: Expenditure on non food items

    PART B: Food expenditure

    PARTC: Subsistence farming

    SECTION 10: Transfers of incomes, other revenues and expenditures

    PART A: Transfers made by household (out)

    PART B: Transfers received by the household (in)

    PART C: Income support programmes & other revenues

    PART D: VUP, UBUDEHE & RSSP SCHEMES

    PART E: Other expenditure (excluding expenditures related to any form of saving)

    SECTION 11: Credit, durables and savings

    PART A: Credit

    PART B: Durable household goods

    PART C: Savings

    Data collection

    Dates of Data Collection
    Start End Cycle
    2010-11-02 2011-10-24 Entire survey period
    2010-11-02 2010-12-04 1
    2010-12-08 2011-01-09 2
    2011-01-13 2011-02-14 3
    2011-02-18 2011-03-22 4
    2011-03-26 2011-04-27 5
    2011-05-01 2011-06-02 6
    2011-06-06 2011-07-08 7
    2011-07-12 2011-08-13 8
    2011-08-17 2011-09-18 9
    2011-09-22 2011-10-24 10
    Mode of data collection
    • Face-to-face [f2f]
    Data Collectors
    Name Affiliation Abbreviation
    National Institute of Statistics of Rwanda Ministry of finance and economics planning (MINECOFIN) NISR

    Data processing

    Data Editing

    Extensive cleaning was carried out on the EICV3 data. A detailed report on this process is available at the NISR.

    Data appraisal

    Estimates of Sampling Error

    Sampling errors for key indicators are provided in the Annexes of the EICV3 reports (main indicators report and thematic reports).

    Disclaimer and copyrights

    Copyright

    (c) 2011, NISR

    Contacts

    Contacts
    Name Affiliation Email URL
    Data Portals Management Officer NISR nada.rwanda@statistics.gov.rw www.statistics.gov.rw

    Metadata production

    DDI Document ID

    RWA-NISR-DDI-EICV3-02

    Producers
    Name Affiliation Role
    Juste NITIEMA Oxford Policy Management (OPM) Developed the document
    Geoffrey Greenwell UNDP Reviewed and edited document
    Ruben Muhayiteto NISR Revision of metadata
    Date of Metadata Production

    2011-06-02

    Metadata version

    DDI Document version

    Version 1.0 (Oct. 19,2012)

    This version of the document represents the first draft of the public-use dataset of the EICV 3 study.
    Version 1.1 (June 28th ,2016): Changed the title from French into English

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