COVID-19 Impact on Rural Men and Women in Kenya, Round 1

Author(s)
  • International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
Release Year 2020
Regions
  • Eastern Africa
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Africa
  • World
Themes
  • Nutrition and health
  • Women's empowerment
  • Climate change
Source HARVARD Dataverse
Data collection period -
Temporal coverage -
Usage Rights
Access Open
License CC-BY
Disclaimer

IFPRI adheres to the principle of unrestricted public access to its own final research outputs and will make such outputs freely available. The Institute encourages the use of the COVID-19 Impact on Rural Men and Women in Kenya, Round 1 dataset; for detailed information on its use, please refer to IFPRI’s Intellectual Property Policy. The data files in this dataset are unit record or ‘raw’ data files. Information that would allow survey respondents to be identified has been deleted from the files, but all other information remains. IFPRI’s decision not to alter the contents of the data files means that the user of these files will need to take care in handling missing observations, outliers, and violations of logical consistency.

The data are provided ‘as is’ and in no event shall IFPRI be liable for any damages resulting from the use of the data. While great effort was taken to obtain high-quality data, the accuracy or reliability of the data is not guaranteed or warranted in any way.
Methodology
Instrument Structured questionnaire
Sampling A sample of about 600 individuals were drawn using systematic random sampling from an existing list of phone numbers from the BMZ supported women's climate change adaptation survey in Busia, Laikipia, and Nakuru counties that took place in 02/2020. These counties are also Feed the Future Zones of Influence. The first wave of phone survey was conducted in September, 2020 with 548 respondents. Female respondents represent about 52 percent of the sample. An appreciation token of Ksh 200 ($2) was offered for each completed survey
Unit of analysis Individual Household
Universe Rural households in Busia, Laikipia, and Nakuru counties in Kenya.
Contact point IFPRI-Data
DOI https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/FB47NW
Funding Organisations United States Agency for International Development (USAID)
Providers International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
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full citation International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). 2021. COVID-19 Impact on Rural Men and Women in Kenya, Round 1. Washington, DC: IFPRI [dataset]. https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/FB47NW. Harvard Dataverse. Version 1.

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Abstract

This dataset is the result of a phone survey set up to measure the impact of COVID-19 on rural people in Kenya. As most governments have urged the population to stay at home to slow down the transmission of the disease, the impact of COVID-19 can affect women and men in different ways: as an income shock (directly or indirectly); as a health and caring shock; as a shock of mobility (affecting access to water, food, firewood, schooling); and as a risk of increased domestic conflict and violence. To capture these various effects on household welfare, this phone survey was conducted with (around) 600 individuals randomly drawn from an existing list of phone numbers collected from previous household surveys with an equal proportion of women and men. The same individuals were also interviewed during other rounds to generate a longitudinal panel allowing to analyze the impact of COVID-19 through time.