Community Lighting in Northern Uganda’s Rhino Camp Refugee Settlement Survey 2016

Uganda, 2016

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Reference ID

UGA_2016_CNAPL_v01_M

Producer(s)

UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR)

Collection(s)

United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR)

Metadata

Documentation in PDF DDI/XML JSON

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Jan 20, 2023

Last modified

Jan 20, 2023

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Identification

Survey ID number

UGA_2016_CNAPL_v01_M

Title

Community Lighting in Northern Uganda’s Rhino Camp Refugee Settlement Survey 2016

Country/Economy

Name	Country code
Uganda	UGA

Study type

Other Household Survey [hh/oth]

Abstract

Located in rural northern Uganda, Rhino Camp is home to more than 80,000 refugees3 – mostly South Sudanese who fled since July 2016. Other Rhino Camp residents come from the Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda, Sudan, as well as the host Ugandan community. 74% of all heads of household are women,4 and Rhino Camp is one of a growing number of refugee settlements across nine UNHCR operations where solar street lamps are in use. Between April and June 2015 UNHCR installed some three dozen community lights in 50% of Rhino Camp’s 14 villages. As demand for community lighting far exceeded available funds, UNHCR worked with the refugee community and its partner the Danish Refugee Council to prioritize the strategic placement of lights within villages. The partners jointly selected locations where (1) refugees were prone to nighttime violence, theft or other safety risks, and (2) lights would promote constructive night-time activity.

Using a 72-question survey, researchers asked respondents what day- and night-time6 activities they and their children do, and whether they do these activities in lit or unlit locations. Researchers then asked respondents if they feared or had been victims of something bad while doing these activities. The phrase something bad is the English translation for the most commonly used expressions – in Nuer, Dinka, Bari, and Kiswahili – of being a victim of an aggressive act or encountering danger. Survey responses reveal that the bad experiences that respondents most commonly fear are sexual and physical violence, theft, verbal harassment, injury, and encounters with animals.

Kind of Data

Sample survey data [ssd]

Unit of Analysis

Individuals

Version

Version Description

Edited, anonymous dataset for licensed distribution.

Version Date

2017

Scope

Notes

The scope of the survey includes:

Respondent demographic information
Household members
Sources of household lighting
Day-time respondent activities
Perceptions of fear during day-time activities
Night-time respondent activities
Perceptions of fear during night-time activities
Children’s night-time activities
Perceptions of night-time safety

Topics

Topic
Community Services
Environment
Gender Based Violence
Shelter/Other Infrastructure
Housing, Land and Property
Access to Energy
Settlement

Coverage

Geographic Coverage

Rhino Camp, Uganda

Universe

Four of Rhino Camp’s 14 villages: two unlit (Katiku and Siripi) and two lit (Ocea and Odobu).

Producers and sponsors

Primary investigators

Name	Affiliation
UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR)	UN

Sampling

Sampling Procedure

The Office of the Prime Minister (OPM) provided UNHCR a numbered list of the names of all heads of household in each village. To ensure a representative sample among these four villages, 15% of households across all villages was selected using a random number generator. The UNHCR research team conducted interviews in 171 households. (38% of selected households were not able to be found due to outdated registry lists, and 1% did not consent.) Among the 171 randomly selected households, researchers conducted 267 individual interviews: 86% of respondents were female and 39% were adolescents.

Data collection

Dates of Data Collection

Start	End
2016-08-17	2016-09-06

Mode of data collection

Face-to-face [f2f]

Data Collectors

Name	Affiliation
UN Refugee Agency	UN

Data processing

Data Editing

A locally-recruited data entry clerk input survey data in to a database using CSPro software. Statisticians cleaned the data, exported it to spreadsheets and organized it into tables, using SAS and R data analysis software. The tables displayed frequency and percentage values for responses to each survey question, and statisticians created additional tables to disaggregate data by gender, village and age. Using Google Earth software and GPS data, the UNHCR research team created a map that calculated the distance of each respondent’s home to each light in their village. Two epidemiologists supporting the assessment used the statistical program R to conduct hypothesis tests8 to determine if people living closer to lights are more likely, compared to those living farther, to 1) walk to lit areas at night and 2) feel safe at night. The lead researcher returned to Rhino Camp in November 2016 to present preliminary data to four groups of six to ten refugees who reside in the four surveyed villages. During these sessions, members of the research team showed participants the survey and explained the purpose of the research. The team also presented and described tables of survey data on the locations where respondents were most and least afraid at night.

Contacts

Name	Affiliation	Email
Data Curation Team	UNHCR	microdata@unhcr.org

Metadata production

DDI Document ID

DDI_UGA_2016_CNAPL_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

2022-11-30

Metadata version

DDI Document version

Version 01 (November 2022): This metadata was downloaded from the UNHCR catalog (https://microdata.unhcr.org/index.php/home) and it is identical to UNHCR version (UNHCR_UGA_2016_PublicLightning_v2.1). The following two metadata fields were edited - Document ID and Survey ID.

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