Livelihoods Programme Monitoring Beneficiary Survey 2017

Malawi, 2017

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Reference ID

MWI_2017_LIS_v01_M

Producer(s)

United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees

Collection(s)

United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) Fragility, Conflict and Violence

Metadata

Documentation in PDF DDI/XML JSON

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May 27, 2021

Last modified

May 27, 2021

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Identification

Survey ID number

MWI_2017_LIS_v01_M

Title

Livelihoods Programme Monitoring Beneficiary Survey 2017

Country/Economy

Name	Country code
Malawi	MWI

Study type

Socio-Economic/Monitoring Survey [hh/sems]

Series Information

The UNHCR Livelihoods Monitoring Framework are designed to promote a standardized approach to tracking program performance and impact through revised impact and performance indicators with concrete definitions, which have made them more focused, precise and relevant to the key intervention areas. The data and the key analysis is available for UNHCR - and externally - financed programs across three primary focus areas - agriculture, self-employment and wage-employment - in terms of assets, employment, market access and more.

Abstract

Since 2014, UNHCR has undertaken a comprehensive revision of the framework for monitoring UNHCR Livelihoods and Economic Inclusion programs. Since 2017, mobile data collection (survey) tools have been rolled out globally, including in Malawi. The participating operations conducted a household survey to a sample of beneficiaries of each livelihoods project implemented by UNHCR and its partner. The dataset consists of baseline (87 observations) and endline data (78 observations) from the same sample beneficiaries, in order to compare before and after the project implementation and thus to measure the impact.

Kind of Data

Sample survey data [ssd]

Unit of Analysis

Household

Version

Version Description

v2.1: Edited, anonymous dataset for public distribution.

Version Date

2019-07-08

Scope

Notes

The scope of the quantitative data of this survey includes:

Identification of the partner and project types
Basic information of beneficiary household (demographics, etc.)
Access to livelihoods assets (social, financial, market access, etc.)
Employment status
Agriculture production (crop, livestock and fishery)
Income change
Savings change

Topics

Topic
Income Generation
Agriculture
Livestock / Animal Husbandry
Fisheries
Capacity Building / Training
Livelihood & Social cohesion
Solutions

Keywords

Livelihoods Economic inclusion Agriculture Self-employment Wage-employment Income Savings Livelihoods assets

Coverage

Geographic Coverage

Dzaleka

Producers and sponsors

Primary investigators

Name	Affiliation
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees	UNHCR

Sampling

Sampling Procedure

The sample size for this dataset is:
Baseline data : 87
Endline data : 78
Total : 165

The sampling was conducted by each participating operation based on general sampling guidance provided as the following;

At least 100 randomly selected beneficiaries for each project
Representativeness of sub-groups (gender, camp, etc.) should be kept as much as possible
Baseline and endline beneficiaries should be the same

Deviations from the Sample Design

Some operations may deviate from the sampling guidance due to local constraints such as logistical and security obstacles.

Response Rate

Information not available

Weighting

No weights were applied during the analysis

Survey instrument

Questionnaires

The survey questionnaire used to collect the survey consists of five sections: Partner Information, General Information on Beneficiary, Access to Agricultural Production Enabled and Enhanced, Access to Self-Employment/ Business Facilitated, and Access to Wage Employment Facilitated.

Data collection

Dates of Data Collection

Start	End
2017-01-01	2017-12-31

Data Collectors

Name
Churches Action in Relief and Development
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees

Data Collection Notes

Data was collected through computer-assisted face-to-face interviewing (on tablets)

Data processing

Data Editing

The dataset presented here has undergone light checking, cleaning, harmonisation of localised information, and restructuring (data may still contain errors) as well as anonymization (includes removal of direct identifiers and sensitive variables, and grouping values of select variables). Empty values can occur for several reasons (e.g. no occurrence of agricultural interventions among the beneficiaries will result in empty variables for the agricultural module).

Access policy

Archive where study is originally stored

United Nations Refugee Agency Microdata Library
https://microdata.unhcr.org/index.php/catalog/174
Original Archive Study ID: UNHCR-MWI-LIS-2017-v2.1
Cost: None

Data Access

Citation requirements

Cite this data as follows:

UNHCR (2017) Livelihoods Monitoring Data for Malawi. UNHCR microdata library: https://microdata.unhcr.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
Solutions	UNHCR	solutions@unhcr.org

Metadata production

DDI Document ID

DDI_MWI_2017_LIS_v01_M

Producers

Name	Role
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees	Collection and documentation of records

Date of Metadata Production

2021-05-19

Metadata version

DDI Document version

Version 01 (May 2021). This version is identical to UNHCR DDI ID: UNHCR-MWI-2017-LIS-1.2, except the following edits were made:

DDI ID, study ID and version description
Specified the archive where the study is originally stored

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