Harmonized Survey on Households Living Standards 2021-2022

Cross-Section Survey

Household Questionnaire, Section 0: Household identification

Household Questionnaire, Section 1: Household sociodemographic characteristics
- Gender, relationship to household's head, date of birth, age, marital status, residency status of individual and his/her parents, religion, citizenship, ethnic group, access to ICT technologies.

Household Questionnaire, Section 2: Education
- Education of household members aged 3 and above

Household Questionnaire, Section 3: General Health
- Health of household members

Household Questionnaire, Section 4: Employment
- Part A: Employment status of household memebers aged 5 and above

Household Questionnaire, Section 4: Employment
- Part B: Primary employment of household members aged 5 and above

Household Questionnaire, Section 4: Employment
- Part C: Secondary employment of household members aged 5 and above

Household Questionnaire, Section 5: Nonjob revenues
- Non-employment income of household members aged 15 and above

Household Questionnaire, Section 6: Saving and credit
- Savings and credit of household members aged 15 and above

Household Questionnaire, Section 7: Part A1: Food consumed outside the household
- Meals taken outside the household by each household member

Household Questionnaire, Section 7: Part A2: Food consumed outside the household
- Meals taken together outside the household by at least two household members

Household Questionnaire, Section 7: Part B: Food consumed within household
- Food consumption in the last 7 days

Household Questionnaire, Section 8A: Food security - extent of food insecurity experiencing
- Food security according to the FAO’s approach

Household Questionnaire, Section 9: Nonfood consumption
- Part A: Parties and celebrations last 12 months

Household Questionnaire, Section 9: Nonfood consumption
- Part B: Nonfood consumption, 7 last days

Household Questionnaire, Section 9: Nonfood consumption
- Part C: Nonfood consumption, 30 last days

Household Questionnaire, Section 9: Nonfood consumption
- Part D: Nonfood consumption, 3 last months

Household Questionnaire, Section 9: Nonfood consumption
- Part E: Nonfood consumption, 6 last months

Household Questionnaire, Section 9: Nonfood consumption
- Part F: Nonfood consumption, 12 last months

Household Questionnaire, Section 10: Nonagricultural enterprises
- Part A: Existence of nonagricultural enterprises

Household Questionnaire, Section 10: nonagricultural enterprises
- Part B: Characteristics of the nonagricultural enterprises

Household Questionnaire, Section 11: Housing
- Housing characteristics

Household Questionnaire, Section 12: Household’s assets

Household Questionnaire, Section 13_1: Transfers sent and received
- Identification of households that received at least one transfer

Household Questionnaire, Section 13_2: Transfers sent and received
- Transfers received by the household

Household Questionnaire, Section 14A: Covid-19 and impact on households

Household Questionnaire, Section 14B: Other shocks and survival strategies

Household Questionnaire, Section 15: Safety nets

Household Questionnaire, Section 16: Agriculture
- Part A: Plots

Household Questionnaire, Section 16: Agriculture
- Part B: Costs of inputs

Household Questionnaire, Section 16: Agriculture
- Part C: Crops

Household Questionnaire, Section 16: Agriculture
- Part D: Use of the crop's yields

Household Questionnaire, Section 17: Livestock

Household Questionnaire, Section 18.1: Fishing

Household Questionnaire, Section 18.1: Fishing (continued)

Household Questionnaire, Section 18.1: Fishing (continued)

Household Questionnaire, Section 19: Agricultural equipment

Household Questionnaire, Section 20A: Relative poverty
- Subjective poverty

Household Questionnaire, Section 20
- Part B.1 Relative poverty, democratic governance

Household Questionnaire, Section 20
- Part B.2: Democratic governance, characteristics of democracy (s20q02)

Household Questionnaire, Section 20
- Part B.3: Governance, democratic governance: discrimination (s20q05)

Household Questionnaire, Section 20C: Peace and security

Section 0: Respondents
- List of people that provided information collected during community survey: gender, age, function in the community, number of years lived in the household, highest education level

Section 1: General community’s characteristics
- Number of people living in community, two main languages spoken in community, two main activities practiced in community, community's topography, distance to closest city, accessibility of and mean of transportation to community, access to electricity, water, mobile phone network, existence of leadership structures or associations.

Section 2: Existence and accessibility of social services
- For each infrastructure - from list of social infrastructures existing in the community: accessibility information such as transportation means to access the infrastructure, the time required between the community and infrastructure, and problems encountered while trying to benefit from the social service.

Section 3: Agriculture
- Community’s agricultural activity: Variety of crops cultivated, the existence and functions of farming cooperatives, access to equipment, access to improved seeds, access to organic fertilizers, access to chemical fertilizers, access to pesticides, and access to agriculture vulgarization agents.

Section 4: Community participation
- It collects data on the community’s participation and sense of ownership when it comes to the construction and maintenance of shared infrastructures such as roads, bridges, schools, health centers, boreholes/wells, and markets.

Individual level
- This dataset contains aggregated information about the characteristics of the individuals in the survey (e.g., personal information, job and salary)

Household characteristics
- This dataset contains aggregated information about the characteristics of the households in the survey (e.g., dwelling, animals and shocks)

Household weight
- The weights are calculated for each household

Price
- The price file contains variables related to product prices. Data are collected monthly for each stratum (region/residence area).

Consumption aggregates
- This dataset contains the consumption aggregate, which is the monetary value of food and non-food goods and services consumed by the households

Welfare indicators
- This dataset contains indicators that give information about the welfare level of the households

Calorie conversion
- This file allows the conversion of 100 grams of a product into calories for West Africa (WA).

NSU (Non-Standard Units)
- This file contains variables related to conversion factors between non-standard units and standard units. The data was collected in 2018 and supplemented in 2021.