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Integrated Household Living Conditions Survey (EICV5), 2016-2017
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Rwanda, 2016 - 2017
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RWA-NISR-EICV5-CS-2016-2017-V0.1
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National Institute of Statistics Rwanda (NISR)
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EICV5 Questionnaire
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Author(s) National Instituite of Statistics of Rwanda
Date 2016-09-01
Country Rwanda
Language English
Publisher(s) NISR
Description This is the questionnaire for EICV5
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Reports
EICV5 Main Indicator Report
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Author(s) National Institute of Statistics of Rwanda
Date 2018-12-06
Country Rwanda
Language English
Publisher(s) NISR
Description This is the EICV5 main indicators report
Table of contents Acknowledgements ........................................................................................................................................................ i
Important technical notes for data users .............................................................................................................iii
Executive summary ....................................................................................................................................................... v
List of figures ................................................................................................................................................................xix
List of tables ..................................................................................................................................................................xxi
List of abbreviations .............................................................................................................................................. xxvii
Chapter 1: Demography............................................................................................................................................... 1
Chapter 2: Migration...................................................................................................................................................13
Chapter 3: Health..........................................................................................................................................................19
3.1. Disability .............................................................................................................................................................................19
3.2. Access to and use of health services........................................................................................................................21
Chapter 4: Education...................................................................................................................................................29
4.1. School Attendance...........................................................................................................................................................29
4.2. Educational attainment.................................................................................................................................................33
4.3. Literacy and Numeracy.................................................................................................................................................37
4.4. Access to education ........................................................................................................................................................44
Chapter 5: Housing characteristics and access to services and facilities.................................................55
5.1. Housing characteristics.................................................................................................................................................55
5.2. Access to services, infrastructure and amenities ..............................................................................................64
5.3. Ownership of durables..................................................................................................................................................76
Chapter 6: Economic activity....................................................................................................................................79
6.1. Main usually job ....................................................................................................................................................................79
6.2: Multiplicity of jobs ...............................................................................................................................................................86
Chapter 7: Environment.............................................................................................................................................89
7.1. Waste management........................................................................................................................................................89
7.2. Environmental information ........................................................................................................................................90
7.3. Exposure to environmental destruction ...............................................................................................................91
Chapter 8: Credits, savings and transfers............................................................................................................95
8.1. Credit.....................................................................................................................................................................................95
8.2. Savings..................................................................................................................................................................................99
8.3. Transfers .......................................................................................................................................................................... 101
Chapter 9: Social Protection.................................................................................................................................107
9.1. Perceptions of vulnerability..................................................................................................................................... 107
9.2. Differences in well-being by characteristic of household head................................................................ 108
9.3. Demographic characteristics of current VUP beneficiaries ....................................................................... 109
9.4. Other public income support programmes....................................................................................................... 110
Chapter 10: Poverty..................................................................................................................................................113
10.2. Poverty Levels and Trends....................................................................................................................................... 114
10.3. Poverty Transitions ..................................................................................................................................................... 120
References ...................................................................................................................................................................123
Annex A: 95% Confidence intervals, standard errors and design effects for selected indicators,
EICV5..............................................................................................................................................................................124
A1. Demography......................................................................................................................................................................... 124
A2. Migration................................................................................................................................................................................ 127
A3. Health...................................................................................................................................................................................... 130
A4. Education............................................................................................................................................................................... 132
A5. Housing characteristics ................................................................................................................................................... 138
A6. Economic Activity .............................................................................................................................................................. 152
A7. Environment ........................................................................................................................................................................ 157
A8. Credits, savings and transfers....................................................................................................................................... 158
Annex E: Persons who contributed to the EICV5 Rwanda Main Indicators Report...........................159
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EICV5 Poverty profile report
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Author(s) National Instituite of Statistics of Rwanda
Date 2018-12-06
Country Rwanda
Language English
Publisher(s) NISR
Description This is the EICV5 poverty profile
Table of contents Foreword ............................................................................................................................................................................................. i
Acknowledgements ........................................................................................................................................................................ iii
Executive Summary ........................................................................................................................................................................ v
List of tables ....................................................................................................................................................................................... x
List of figures ................................................................................................................................................................................... xii
Chapter 1: Introduction ................................................................................................................................................................. 1
Chapter 2: Economic Context ...................................................................................................................................................... 3
2.1. Gross Domestic Product (GDP) .................................................................................................................................................... 3
2.2. Prices ...................................................................................................................................................................................................... 6
2.3. Sources of earnings .......................................................................................................................................................................... 7
Chapter 3: Methodology ................................................................................................................................................................ 9
3.1. The survey ............................................................................................................................................................................................ 9
3.2. Measuring wellbeing ........................................................................................................................................................................ 9
3.3. Deflating .............................................................................................................................................................................................. 11
3.4. Poverty line ........................................................................................................................................................................................ 11
Chapter 4: Trends in consumption & social economic indicators ................................................................................ 13
4.1. Consumption ..................................................................................................................................................................................... 13
4.2. Other living standards indicators ............................................................................................................................................. 14
Chapter 5: Poverty Levels and Trends ................................................................................................................................... 21
5.1. Essential poverty data ................................................................................................................................................................... 21
5.2. Poverty Transitions ........................................................................................................................................................................ 23
5.3. Geographic Pattern of Poverty .................................................................................................................................................. 24
5.4. Poverty by Geographical location ............................................................................................................................................. 26
5.5. Dominance analysis ........................................................................................................................................................................ 32
Chapter 6: Inequality .................................................................................................................................................................... 35
Chapter7: Factors affecting changes in poverty .................................................................................................................. 37
7.1. Growth in real consumption ....................................................................................................................................................... 37
7.2. Decomposition: Growth vs. redistribution ............................................................................................................................ 40
7.3. Decomposition of poverty changes by place of residence .............................................................................................. 41
7.4. Fast Growth and Slow Poverty Reduction ............................................................................................................................. 43
7.5. Effect of 2016 Drought on Agriculture and Crop Harvests ............................................................................................. 45
Chapter 8: Profiles of poverty ................................................................................................................................................... 49
8.1. Demographic indicators ............................................................................................................................................................... 49
8.2. Education ............................................................................................................................................................................................ 51
8.3. Health ................................................................................................................................................................................................... 53
8.4. Housing ................................................................................................................................................................................................ 54
8.5. Asset ownership .............................................................................................................................................................................. 55
8.6. Sources of income ........................................................................................................................................................................... 56
Chapter 9: Vulnerability to shocks .......................................................................................................................................... 59
References ........................................................................................................................................................................................ 62
Appendix 1: Poverty Deficit Curve .......................................................................................................................................... 63
Annex E: Persons who contributed to the EICV5 Rwanda Poverty Profile Report ................................................. 65
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Technical documents
Igitabo Cy'Amabwiriza y'Umukarani w'Ibarura
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Author(s) National Institute of Statistics of Rwanda
Date 2018-12-06
Country Rwanda
Language Kinyarwanda
Publisher(s) National Institute of Statistics of Rwanda
Description This is Enumerator's manual for EICV5.
Download https://microdatabk.statistics.gov.rw//catalog/82/download/791
EICV5 Listing Manual
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Author(s) National Institute of Statistics of Rwanda
Date 2018-12-06
Country Rwanda
Language Kinyarwanda
Publisher(s) National Institute of Statistics of Rwanda
Description This is the listing manual for EICV5
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