Data in Emergencies Monitoring System - Household Survey 2023
Round 9
Sierra Leone, 2023
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SLE_2023_DIEM-HS-R9_v01_M_v01_A_ESS
Data in Emergencies Monitoring System - Household Survey 2023
Round 9
DIEM-HS-R9 2023
| Name | Country code |
|---|---|
| Sierra Leone | SLE |
Agricultural Survey [ag/oth]
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) launched a household survey in Sierra Leone through the Data in Emergencies Monitoring (DIEM-Monitoring) System to monitor agricultural livelihoods and food security. This ninth-round survey was conducted through face-to-face interviews from 10 February to 2 March 2023 and reached 2 682 households. Data were collected during the post-harvest period across five provinces, and sixteen districts. The survey is representative at admin level 2.
For more information, please go to https://data-in-emergencies.fao.org/pages/monitoring
Sample survey data [ssd]
Households
Scope
[The survey collected information on the following areas:
- Household: household information
- Income sources, shocks: income changes, shocks experienced by households
- Crop production: crops planted, area planted, area harvested, crop production difficulties
- Crop marketing: crop sale difficulties, crop sale price
- Livestock production: types of livestock present on holding, number of livestock, livestock production difficulties
- Livestock marketing: livestock sale, livestock sale difficulties, livestock sale price
- Fisheries production: fish activity, comparison of fish production
- Fisheries marketing: fish sale, fish sale difficulties, fish sale price
- Food security and consumption: food consumption, food utilization, coping strategies
- Needs assistance: open questions on the needs for assistance
Coverage
National coverage
Producers and sponsors
| Name | Affiliation |
|---|---|
| Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations | United Nations |
| Data in Emergencies Hub | United Nations |
| Name | Affiliation | Role |
|---|---|---|
| Data in Emergencies Hub | Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations | Data processing and analysis |
| Name |
|---|
| United States Agency for International Development (USAID) |
| European Union (EU) |
| FAO’s Special Fund for Emergency and Rehabilitation (SFERA) |
Sampling
Data were collected during the post-harvest period across five provinces, and
the following sixteen districts: Eastern (Kailahun, Kenema and Kono districts), Northern (Bombali, Falaba, Koinadugu and Tonkolili districts), North West (Kambia, Kerene and Port Loko districts), Southern (Bo, Bonthe, Moyamba, Kono and Pujehun districts) and Western (Western Area Rural and Western Area Urban).
For more details on the sampling procedure, consult the methodology document attached in the documentations tab.
Regional weights were applied to correct disproportionate sampling at the regional level and based on information gathered through the 2015 census.
Survey instrument
A link to the questionnaire has been provided in the documentations tab.
Data collection
| Start | End |
|---|---|
| 2023-02-10 | 2023-03-02 |
- Face-to-face [f2f]
Data processing
The datasets have been edited and processed for analysis by the Needs Assessment team at the Office of Emergencies and Resilience, FAO, with some dashboards and visualizations produced. For more information, see https://data-in-emergencies.fao.org/pages/countries.
STATISTICAL DISCLOSURE CONTROL (SDC)
The dataset was anonymized using Statistical Disclosure methods by the Data in Emergencies Hub team and reviewed by the Statistics Division of FAO. All direct identifiers have been removed prior to data submission.
Data Access
| Name | Affiliation | URL | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Needs Assessment Team - Office of Emergencies and Resilience (DIEM Team) | Food and Agriculture Organization | https://data-in-emergencies.fao.org/ | emergency-needs-assessments@fao.org |
| Confidentiality declaration text |
|---|
| The users shall not take any action with the purpose of identifying any individual entity (i.e. person, household, enterprise, etc.) in the micro dataset(s). If such a disclosure is made inadvertently, no use will be made of the information, and it will be reported immediately to FAO. |
Micro datasets disseminated by FAO shall only be allowed for research and statistical purposes. Any user which requests access working for a commercial company will not be granted access to any micro dataset regardless of their specified purpose. Users requesting access to any datasets must agree to the following minimal conditions:
- The micro dataset will only be used for statistical and/or research purposes;
- Any results derived from the micro dataset will be used solely for reporting aggregated information, and not for any specific individual entities or data subjects;
- The users shall not take any action with the purpose of identifying any individual entity (i.e. person, household, enterprise, etc.) in the micro dataset(s). If such a disclosure is made inadvertently, no use will be made of the information, and it will be reported immediately to FAO;
- The micro dataset cannot be re-disseminated by users or shared with anyone other than the individuals that are granted access to the micro dataset by FAO.
FAO. 2023. Data in Emergencies Monitoring Household Survey - Sierra Leone, Round 9, 2023. data-in-emergencies.fao.org. Dataset downloaded from microdata.fao.org
Disclaimer and copyrights
The user of the data acknowledges that the original collector of the data, the authorized distributor of the data, and the relevant funding agency bear no responsibility for use of the data or for interpretations or inferences based upon such uses.
Contacts
| Name | Affiliation | URL | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Needs Assessment Team - Office of Emergencies and Resilience (OER) | Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations | emergency-needs-assessments@fao.org | https://data-in-emergencies.fao.org/ |
Metadata production
DDI_SLE_2023_DIEM-HS-R9_v01_M_v01_A_ESS_FAO
| Name | Abbreviation | Affiliation | Role |
|---|---|---|---|
| DIEM Team, Office of Emergencies and Resilience | OER | Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations | Metadata producer |
| Statistics Division | ESS | Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations | Metadata adapted for FAM |
| Development Data Group | DECDG | The World Bank | Metadata adapted for World Bank Microdata Library |
Metadata version
Identical to a metadata (SLE_2023_DIEM-HS-R9_v01_M_v01_A_ESS) published on FAO microdata repository (https://microdata.fao.org/index.php/catalog). Some of the metadata fields have been edited.