Livelihoods Programme Monitoring Beneficiary Survey 2021

South Africa, 2021

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Reference ID

ZAF_2021_LIS_v01_M

Producer(s)

UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR)

Collection(s)

United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR)

Metadata

Documentation in PDF DDI/XML JSON

Study website

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Dec 06, 2022

Last modified

Jan 20, 2023

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Identification

Survey ID number

ZAF_2021_LIS_v01_M

Title

Livelihoods Programme Monitoring Beneficiary Survey 2021

Country/Economy

Name	Country code
South Africa	ZAF

Study type

Other Household Survey [hh/oth]

Series Information

The UNHCR Livelihoods Monitoring Framework surveys 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 are 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

The UNHCR Livelihoods Monitoring Framework takes a program-based approach to monitoring, with the aim of tracking both outputs and the impact of UNHCR dollars spent on programming (either via partners or through direct implementation).

The process for developing the indicators began in 2015 with a review of existing tools and approaches. Consultations were held with governments, the private sector, field-based staff and civil society partners to devise a set of common, standardized measures rooted in global good practices.

Since 2017, a data collection (survey) has been rolled out globally, and the participating operations conducted a household surveys to a sample of beneficiaries of each livelihoods project implemented by UNHCR and its partner. The dataset consists of baseline and endline data from the same sample beneficiaries, in order to compare before and after the project implementation and thus to measure the impact.

More info is available on the official website: https://lis.unhcr.org

Kind of Data

Sample survey data [ssd]

Unit of Analysis

Households

Version

Version Description

Version 1.1: Edited, cleaned and anonymised data for public use.

Scope

Notes

The scope includes:

Partner information including location of household and type of survey round (Baseline/ Endline)
General information on beneficiary
Access to agriculture production enabled and enhanced (social assets, financial access, agricultural employment, crop production, animal production, fishery production, market access, change income/saving)
Access to self-employment/ business facilitated (social assets, financial access, self-employment, market access, changing in income/saving)
Access to wage employment facilitated (social assets, financial access, wage employment, change in income/ saving)

Topics

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

Keywords

LIS Livelihood Economic inclusion Self-employment Income, Savings

Producers and sponsors

Primary investigators

Name	Affiliation
UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR)	UN

Sampling

Sampling Procedure

The sampling was conducted by each participating operations 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

Survey instrument

Questionnaires

Questionnaire contains the following sections:

partner information
general information on beneficiary
agriculture
self-employment
wage-employment

Data collection

Dates of Data Collection

Start	End
2021-01-01	2021-12-31

Mode of data collection

Face-to-face [f2f]

Data Collectors

Name	Affiliation
UN Refugee Agency	UN

Data Collection Notes

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

Data Access

Citation requirements

UNHCR (2021). South Africa: Livelihoods Programme Monitoring Beneficiary Survey, 2021. Accessed from: https://microdata.unhcr.org

Contacts

Name	Affiliation	Email
Curation team	UNHCR	microdata@unhcr.org

Metadata production

DDI Document ID

DDI_ZAF_2021_LIS_v01_M

Producers

Name	Affiliation	Role
UN Refugee Agency	UN	Metadata producer
Development Economics Data Group	The World Bank	Metadata adapted for World Bank Microdata Library

Date of Metadata Production

2022-12-06

Metadata version

DDI Document version

Version 01 (December 2022): This metadata was downloaded from the UNHCR catalog (https://microdata.unhcr.org/index.php/home) and it is identical to UNHCR version (UNHCR_ZAF_2021_LIS_data_v1.1). The following two metadata fields were edited - Document ID and Survey ID.

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