Rwanda - Integrated Household Living Conditions Survey 2005-2006

Vesion 1.0 June 2006

Vesion 1.1 June 2016

2007-06-07

Version 1.0

-First release of data used in a capacity building workshop held on 22-27 Feb. 2007

-This data is the original data set as used for the OPM preliminary poverty analysis.

-This data has been largely edited for poverty related studies. Further editing may be likely

-Key data quality issues:

1. Adjusments were done to the own consumption data on reporting of buckets as a unit of consumption. Price reporting for for unit needed to be adjusted in some areas.

2. The residual value as reported in Section 11 Durables is likely not useable as it reflects replacement value and no correction was undertaken.

3. All product codes are not recoded to a standard. They have been left as sequential numbers.

4. Household identifiers have been subject to some anonymization. They have been uniquely identified by a sequential cluster and sequential household id number.

5. Only relevant and representative geographic ids are included. A key to match the current ids to their geographic correlates has been provided to the NISR. This file is entitled: eicv2_remap_weights.sav

-The following additional derived files are provided:

*deflators: contains the computed deflators used for the poverty sttudy.

*poverty file: contains the household consumption aggregate, poverty statistics and welfare quintile.

Version 1.1 -Corrected some spelling errors in the DDI. -Added the OPM Poverty Assessment from December. -Changed the name of the community files.

Version 1.2

Some changes have been made to the data files.

-sections 6e, 6f, 7 (employment) were missing the unique keys. These have been added.

-deflator file has been added

-added ASCII data

-study folders for labour, poverty, social sector and national accounts added.

Other changes:

Version 1.1 had problems with some of the hyperlinks. These have been corrected.

User feedback regarding the literacy questions suggest that the universe is not well defined. The universe for literacy is only asked for those persons aged 6 and over that did not complete primary school. The question was otherwise skipped as it was assumed that those with a primary school education could read and write.

The objectives of the EICV 2005 are to provide information on poverty and living conditions in Rwanda and to monitor changes over time as part of the ongoing monitoring of the Poverty Reduction Strategy and other Government policies. The results of the EICV 2005 will be compared with the results of the EICV 2001 and the content of the questionnaire will be broadly similar to that of the previous survey. In addition the survey will provide data on household income and expenditures which can be used for updating the weights and market basket for the Consumer Price Index (CPI) and components of the national accounts. Survey data on agricultural activities have also proved to be important for national accounts and will complement information provided by future agricultural and rural sector surveys.

Sample survey data [ssd]

Household

Person

Commodity (for GDP computation)