Rwanda - Comprehensive Food Security and Vulnerability Analysis (CFSVA)
Reference ID | RWA-NISR-CFSVA-206-v01 |
Year | 2006 |
Country | Rwanda |
Producer(s) | National Institute of Statistics Rwanda - Government of Rwanda |
Sponsor(s) | Strengthening Emergency Needs Assessment Capacity - ODAN/SENAC - Europian Commission (Humanitarian Aid) - ODAN/SENAC - MSF-Belgium - MSF-Belgium - FEWS NET - FEWS NET - The Disaster Management Unit (DMU) of the Prime Minister’s Offi |
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Sampling
Sampling Procedure
The Rwanda CFSVA sought to characterize household food insecurity and vulnerability at the sub-provincial level. The country is divided into five provinces (Kigali-Ville, Northern Province, Southern Province, Eastern Province and Western Province), 30 districts and 416 sectors. Each sector is composed of cells, which are subdivided into imidugudu. Since it was impossible to cover and be representative of all 30 districts of Rwanda within the time and budget allocated to the study (and because there were too few provinces), it was decided to use the 12 food economy zones (FEZ) identified in 2003 by the Rwanda Vulnerability Baseline Assessment conducted by the Ministry of Agriculture and Animal Resources (MINAGRI), the Ministry of Youth, Culture and Sports (MIJESPOC), the Ministry of Local Administration, Community Development and Social Affairs (MINALOC), the World Food Programme (WFP) and FEWS NET. All FEZ but Kigali were surveyed.
The sample universe for this study was all rural households of Rwanda. A multi-stage sampling procedure was used to select households within each food economy zone. Zones de dénombrement (ZD, enumeration zones) were selected first, followed by households. The 2002 census divided sectors in 7,727 ZD. ZD were also used for the 2002 and 2005 Population and Household Living Conditions Study (EICV). ZD were used for the first stage of sampling so that data from EICV studies could be incorporated in the analysis.
A total of 493 ZD were selected randomly (stratified by FEZ and well distributed throughout the former administrative provinces) from the list of all rural ZD. Within those ZD, comprehensive household lists were used to randomly select a total sample of 2,806 households. The sample size was designed to provide representative results at the FEZ level.
A total of 2,786 households were interviewed for this study. General characteristics of the sampled population are provided in Figure 2-2: Sample size and composition. The average household size was 5.2 people. The average age of the household head was 46, and 29 percent of the households were headed by women.