Reproductive Health Survey 1999

This first section provides information to identify the household being interviewed. The field team leader will have, for identification purposes, a list of housing units and corresponding households to be interviewed. It is important to the success of the survey that the actual household being interviewed matches what appears in this sample list. Part of the identification information will be completed prior to the interview, part of it will be completed as the interview begins, and the rest will be completed at the end of the interview. All these must be clearly and accurately entered. This section is used to collect information on the survey household in order to identify the household, if it is necessary, to re-interview the household members in the future and to identify the household for data analysis purposes

This section deals with general individual details of all household members. The household roster is where the membership of the household is determined. All potential members of the household are listed in B02 in this section. In listing members, list the names of all members of the household (see member definition below). The person listed in the first row will always be the head of the household. If the respondent to the questionnaire is not the head of the household, the head of the household will still be listed in the first row (not the respondent). If the head of the household is absent at the time of interview, he/she will still be listed in the first row. In writing the names of the household members, be sure that you uniquely identify the individuals. If two individuals in the household have the same name, ask about any nicknames or other ways in which the two persons can easily be distinguished from each other.

The key educational indicators that are of interest are enrollment rates and drop out rates. The classification of an individual as a school-drop out is obtained by combining questions on school attendance last year and current school attendance. Drop-outs are persons not currently attending school, were attending school the previous year, and have not completed their studies. Additional educational indicators include the highest grade completed, and the type of school attended (private or public). Information on the educational history of all household members aged 4 years and older is collected in this section. No information is collected from those age 3 years and younger.

This section deals with key housing conditions and services. Most of the questions that are posed in this section are easily observable and may therefore be tackled without posing the questions to the respondent. However, it should not be taken that such questions can just be tackled without reference to the respondent. The interviewer is always encouraged to check with the respondent.

This sector deals with key infrastructural services. It is mainly aimed at determining access of most household to these services and where applicable the cost of these services. Remember that last month used in this section do not refer to the calendar month

This sector deals with key infrastructural services. It is mainly aimed at determining access of most household to these services and where applicable the cost of these services. Remember that last month used in this section do not refer to the calendar month

This section has five parts on food and non-food consumption and expenditure (section I to Section M). Information in the food consumption sections should be asked of the individual in the household who is primarily responsible for food preparation for the household, with the assistance of other food preparers and the head of household, if applicable. Information on non-food expenditures should be asked of the head of household, who should be assisted by other informed adults within the household.

Various recall periods are used in these sections. The length of the recall period is associated with the typical frequency of purchase of the items. Food items, which are purchased most frequently, have the shortest recall period. Non-food purchases have longer recall periods, with the longest being for items that are purchased infrequently.

This type of consumption refers to less frequent durable items and the recall period is one year. In addition, we will capture ownership of these durables irrespective of when they were purchased/obtained.

Section J
This section and the following sections should be asked of the head of household, who should be assisted by other informed adults within the household.

Once more this broad classification tries as much as possible to follow the COICOP classification of non-foods. The broad categories are: -
• Household services such as refuse collection, sewerage
• Gas and other fuels
• Goods/services for routine maintenance/cleaning
• Communication - postal services, telephone equipment etc
• Other stationery such as books (non-educational), newspapers, novels
• Domestic services such as gardener, servants, guards
• Transport services
• Fuel and lubricants
• Repairs for vehicles
• Personal care and grooming
This section and the following sections should be asked of the head of household, who should be assisted by other informed adults within the household.

Once more this broad classification tries as much as possible to follow the COICOP classification of non-foods. The broad categories are: -
• Household services such as refuse collection, sewerage
• Gas and other fuels
• Goods/services for routine maintenance/cleaning
• Communication - postal services, telephone equipment etc
• Other stationery such as books (non-educational), newspapers, novels
• Domestic services such as gardener, servants, guards
• Transport services
• Fuel and lubricants
• Repairs for vehicles
• Personal care and grooming
This section and the following sections should be asked of the head of household, who should be assisted by other informed adults within the household.

Once more this broad classification tries as much as possible to follow the COICOP classification of non-foods. The broad categories are: -
• Household services such as refuse collection, sewerage
• Gas and other fuels
• Goods/services for routine maintenance/cleaning
• Communication - postal services, telephone equipment etc
• Other stationery such as books (non-educational), newspapers, novels
• Domestic services such as gardener, servants, guards
• Transport services
• Fuel and lubricants
• Repairs for vehicles
• Personal care and grooming
This section and the following sections should be asked of the head of household, who should be assisted by other informed adults within the household.

Once more this broad classification tries as much as possible to follow the COICOP classification of non-foods. The broad categories are: -
• Household services such as refuse collection, sewerage
• Gas and other fuels
• Goods/services for routine maintenance/cleaning
• Communication - postal services, telephone equipment etc
• Other stationery such as books (non-educational), newspapers, novels
• Domestic services such as gardener, servants, guards
• Transport services
• Fuel and lubricants
• Repairs for vehicles
• Personal care and grooming

Section K
This section and the following section should be asked of the head of household, who should be assisted by other informed adults within the household.

Section L
This type of consumption refers to durable items and the recall period is 1 month.


This broad classification tries as much as possible to follow the COICOP classification of non-foods. The broad categories are: -
• Clothing
• Footwear
• Small appliances (non-electric)
• Recreation and culture
• Other
This type of consumption refers to frequent durable item and the recall period is 1 calendar month

A key aspect of household welfare is the ability to seek and attain access to medical care when required. The survey will collect data on reasons for requiring medical attention, frequency of use of health services, satisfaction with services provided, and in a later section, access to health services. In this section, information on both the recent and long-term health status of each household member is asked. Information should be collected on all members of the household. Information on the health condition of children should be provided by their mothers or guardians.

A key aspect of household welfare is the ability to seek and attain access to medical care when required. The survey will collect data on reasons for requiring medical attention, frequency of use of health services, satisfaction with services provided, and in a later section, access to health services. In this section, information on both the recent and long-term health status of each household member is asked. Information should be collected on all members of the household. Information on the health condition of children should be provided by their mothers or guardians.

This section collects information related to health of children. Specific questions are asked on delivery care, breastfeeding, child nutrition, incidences of diarrhea, feeding practices during diarrhea and vaccinations.

The questions are asked for all children born within the last five years.

This section collects detailed information on the ownership and operation of any income generating enterprises/Establishments by the survey household that were in operation over the past one month. Each row of the section on the questionnaire represents one household establishment. Below are some useful concepts.

This section collects detailed information on the ownership and sales of livestock over the past twelve months. Each row of the section on the questionnaire represents one type of livestock, poultry, fish and bees (emerging livestock). This section is to be administered to the household head and others in the survey household who are concerned with managing the household's livestock.
The ownership, husbandry and sales of livestock is covered.

This section collects detailed crop level information on the harvest and sales made for crops harvested last 12 months (both long and short rains cropping season). Each row of the section on the questionnaire represents a crop type. This section is to be administered to the household head and others who are concerned with farming in the survey household

This is the first in a series of three sections dealing with various aspects of agricultural production and marketing. It is to be administered to the household head and others who are concerned with farming in the survey household. This section collects detailed parcel level information on the farming practices of the household during the last 12 months. Each row of the section on the questionnaire represents one agricultural parcel.
The reference period for this section is the last 12 months.

This section collects information on credit for business or farming purposes received by or sought by household members over the past 12 months. The household head and the persons responsible for the loans received by the household should be the respondents. The credit could either have been taken in the form of cash or of in-kind goods, such as agricultural inputs. The credit may have been obtained from an informal source, such as a relative or a local money lender (shylock). However, there must be an explicit agreement between the lender and the household member who took the credit that the loan would be repaid within a certain period of time and/or with the addition of a specific interest charge on top of the principal amount of the credit. Consequently, gifts should not be listed here, nor should items received under transfer programs, such as the Re-stocking, Relief etc.

For the purpose of this section, a credit is an arrangement in which a lender gives money or property to a borrower, and the borrower agrees to return the property or repay the money, along with interest if applicable, at some future point(s) in time. There is a usually a predetermined time for repaying a loan, and generally the lender has to bear the risk that the borrower may not repay a loan (though modern capital markets have developed many ways of managing this risk).

This section collects quite aggregated and general information on gifts received and gifts made by the household over the past 12 months. The gifts received and given are disaggregated according to type: cash, food, and other in-kind.

The purpose of this section is to capture any income that a household may have received or given in form of a gift: that was not in return of goods or services offered by member(s) of the household to the source of the gift. By definition a transfer is a transaction in which an individual/household/institution provides good/service/asset to another individual/household/institution without receiving from the latter any good/service/asset in return as counterpart.

The transfer (gift) may be in cash or in Kind. Where in-cash transfer means assistance that come in form of currency or transferable deposits (e.g. cheque, money orders etc) while in-kind transfer means goods or service assistance that is not in form of cash: transfer of ownership of goods/assets or supply of services for free (e.g. free medical check up, free provision of labour etc).

Goods are physical objects for which a demand exists, over which ownership rights can be established and whose ownership can be transferred.

Services are outputs produced to order and typically result to changes in the conditions of the consuming unit. E.g. Cleaning, medical, legal services etc

Self-help groups are entities typically established by people with the intentions of uplifting their living standards by pooling resources together. Examples of self-help groups is merry-go-round, social welfare etc

Information has already been collected on income from employment, from agriculture, livestock, household enterprises and transfers. This section collects quite aggregated and general information on other income sources for the household. The reference period for this section is the last 12 months. Only if the household received income from one of the income sources considered in this section over the past 12 months, should it be noted.

This section collects information on household shocks, referred to here as negative economic and social impact on Household, resulting from an event/ occurrence that negatively affected the welfare of the household. Such shocks may not be economic nor necessarily wholly negative in their nature, but amongst the effects is to cause a reduction in the economic welfare of the household.

In this section, the survey and the subsequent analyses of its results will be based on a labour force frame work; where total population is categorised into currently economic active population (labour force) and population that is not currently economically active. Labour force or "current economically active population" consists of those members of the population who are working plus those who are not working, but are looking for work during a specified reference period. The inactive population covers those members of the population who are NOT available for work (economically inactive members include the infirm, ailing, incapacitated and full-time students). In most countries the labour force population is taken to be aged between the ages 14 and 64. However, there is no upper age limit for this section. Also, the lower age limit has been lowered to include those aged 5 years and above so as to capture the extent and intensity of child labour in Kenya.

A key aspect of household welfare is the ability to seek and attain access to medical care when required. The survey will collect data on reasons for requiring medical attention, frequency of use of health services, satisfaction with services provided, and in a later section, access to health services. In this section, information on both the recent and long-term health status of each household member is asked. Information should be collected on all members of the household. Information on the health condition of children should be provided by their mothers or guardians.