Data in Emergencies Monitoring System - Household Survey 2024, Round 8

Afghanistan, 2024

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Reference ID

AFG_2024_DIEM-HS-R8_v01_M_v01_A_ESS

Producer(s)

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Data in Emergencies Hub, Office of Emergencies and Resilience

Collection(s)

FAO - Food and Agriculture Microdata Catalog

Metadata

Documentation in PDF DDI/XML JSON

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Jan 20, 2026

Last modified

Jan 20, 2026

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Identification

Survey ID number

AFG_2024_DIEM-HS-R8_v01_M_v01_A_ESS

Title

Data in Emergencies Monitoring System - Household Survey 2024, Round 8

Abbreviation or Acronym

DIEM-HH-R8 2024

Country/Economy

Name	Country code
Afghanistan	AFG

Abstract

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations has developed a monitoring system in 26 food crisis countries to better understand the impacts of various shocks on agricultural livelihoods, food security and local value chains. The Monitoring System consists of primary data collected from households on a periodic basis. FAO conducted the eighth-round survey through face-to-face interviews between 24 January and 29 February 2024. This round covered only rural enumeration areas and reached 9494 rural households across all 34 provinces of Afghanistan. The findings are representative at the provincial (administrative level 1) scale.

For more information, see https://data-in-emergencies.fao.org/pages/monitoring.

Kind of Data

Sample survey data [ssd]

Unit of Analysis

Households

Scope

Notes

The survey collected information on:

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, comping strategies
NEEDS ASSISTANCE: open questions on the needs for assistance

Coverage

Geographic Coverage

National coverage

Producers and sponsors

Primary investigators

Name
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Data in Emergencies Hub, Office of Emergencies and Resilience

Producers

Name	Affiliation	Role
Data in Emergencies Hub, Office of Emergencies and Resilience	Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations	Data processing and analysis

Funding Agency/Sponsor

Name	Abbreviation
European Union	EU
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Special Fund for Emergency and Resilience Activities	SFERA

Sampling

Sampling Procedure

A two-stage cluster sampling method was applied. In the first stage, an equal number of clusters per province was selected using Probability Proportional to Size (PPS). In the second stage, a fixed number of households within each cluster was randomly selected and interviewed. Data collection covered all 34 provinces of Afghanistan, reaching a random sample of 9494 rural households.

Surveys are designed based on country-specific needs, objectives, and constraints. The sample design and size aim to achieve a 10 percent margin of error, a 95 percent confidence level, administrative-level granularity, and sufficient sample sizes for key variables within target populations, including agricultural households.

Weighting

Data were weighted by demographics (based on the total rural population per stratum) and a wealth proxy (access to drinkable water) at administrative level 1.

Data collection

Dates of Data Collection

Start	End
2024-01-24	2024-02-29

Mode of data collection

Face-to-face [f2f]

Data processing

Data Editing

The datasets have been edited and processed for analysis by the Data in Emergencies Hub (DIEM) 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 by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Data in Emergencies (DIEM) Hub and reviewed by the Statistics Division, using Statistical Disclosure methods in accordance with FAO Corporate Statistical Disclosure Control Protocol. All direct identifiers have been removed prior to data submission. For more information, see https://openknowledge.fao.org/server/api/core/bitstreams/833ee200-0484-4f87-8f5c-b3fed4a3722b/content.

Data Access

Confidentiality

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.

Access conditions

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.

Citation requirements

FAO. 2025. Data in Emergencies Monitoring Household Survey – Afghanistan, Round 8, 2024. data-in-emergencies.fao.org. Dataset downloaded from microdata.fao.org.

Disclaimer and copyrights

Disclaimer

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	Email	URL
Data in Emergencies Hub, Office of Emergencies and Resilience	Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations	diem-hub-list@fao.org	https://data-in-emergencies.fao.org/

Metadata production

DDI Document ID

DDI_AFG_2024_DIEM-HS-R8_v01_M_v01_A_ESS_FAO

Producers

Name	Abbreviation	Affiliation	Role
Data in Emergencies Hub, 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	World Bank Group	Metadata adapted for World Bank Microdata Library

Metadata version

DDI Document version

Identical to a metadata (AFG_2024_DIEM_HS_R8_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.

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