Rwanda - Integrated Household Living Conditions Survey 2010-2011

Rwanda Integrated Household Living Conditions Survey 2010-2011

Enquête Intégrale sur les conditions de vie des ménages 2010-2011

Income/Expenditure/Household Survey This is the third in a series of periodic standardized income and expenditure surveys. The Rwanda EICV is conducted with a periodicity of 5 years. The surveys in the series are as follows:

EICV1 2000-2001

EICV2 2005-2006

EICV3 2010-2011

ID Number RWA-NISR-EICV3-02

The scope of survey is defined by the need to evaluate poverty determinants and effects of poverty in various domains. This includes gathering data in specific sectors and examning summary statistics and computed indicators by consumption indicator, gender etc. The survey primarily seeks to compute household consumption aggregates and correlate consumption to the following areas are within the scope and integrated into the survey:

- Education (education expenditures): general education, curriculum, vocational training and, higher learning, school-leaving, literacy and apprenticeship.

- Health (health expenditures): disability and health problems, general health and preventative vaccination over the past 12 months.

- Migration (travel expenditures): rural-urban migration, internal and external migration.

- Housing (expenditures on utilities, rent etc.): status of the housing occupancy, services and installations, physical characteristics of the dwelling, access and satisfaction towards basic services.

- Economic activity (revenue): unemployment, underemployment and job search, occupation, wage or salaried employment characteristics, VUP Activities, all other activities, domestic work.

- Non-agricultural activities (revenue): activity status, formal and informal sector activity.

- Agriculture (income and expenditure) : livestock, land and agricultural equipment, details of holding parcels/blocs and agricultural policy changes, crop harvests and use on a large and small scale crop production, harvests and use, transformation (processing) of agricultural products.

In addition to the specific sector information, consumption and/or wealth holding information was collected:

- Consumption: Expenditure on non food items, food expenditure, subsistence farming (own consumption) with different recall periods.

- Other cash flows : transfers out by household, transfers received by the household, income support programs & other revenues (excluding all incomes accrued from saving), VUP, UBUDEHE & RSSP schemes, other expenditure (excluding expenditures related to any form of saving).

- Stock items: credit, durable assets and savings (household assets and liabilities)

Topic	Vocabulary	URI
consumption/consumer behaviour [1.1]	CESSDA	http://www.nesstar.org/rdf/common
economic conditions and indicators [1.2]	CESSDA	http://www.nesstar.org/rdf/common
EDUCATION [6]	CESSDA	http://www.nesstar.org/rdf/common
general health [8.4]	CESSDA	http://www.nesstar.org/rdf/common
employment [3.1]	CESSDA	http://www.nesstar.org/rdf/common
unemployment [3.5]	CESSDA	http://www.nesstar.org/rdf/common
housing [10.1]	CESSDA	http://www.nesstar.org/rdf/common
time use [13.9]	CESSDA	http://www.nesstar.org/rdf/common
migration [14.3]	CESSDA	http://www.nesstar.org/rdf/common
information technology [16.2]	CESSDA	http://www.nesstar.org/rdf/common

This is a national survey with representivity at the (5) provicial and (30) district level and includes urban and rural households.

The cluster

All household members.

Name	Abbreviation	Affiliation	Role
Juste NITIEMA		Oxford Policy Management (OPM)	Developed the document
Geoffrey Greenwell		UNDP	Reviewed and edited document
Ruben Muhayiteto		NISR	Revision of metadata

2011-06-02 Version 1.0 (Oct. 19,2012)

This version of the document represents the first draft of the public-use dataset of the EICV 3 study.

Version 1.1 (June 28th ,2016): Changed the title from French into English

RWA-NISR-DDI-EICV3-02