DDI_BGR_2023_PDM-CBI_v01_M UN Refugee Agency Development Data Group 2025-01-21 NADA Identical to a metadata (UNHCR_BUL_2023_PDM) published on UNHCR catalog (https://microdata.unhcr.org/index.php/home). Some of the metadata fields have been edited. Post-Distribution Monitoring of Cash-Based Interventions 2023 PDM-CBI 2023 BGR_2023_PDM-CBI_v01_M UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) UNHCR MetadataEditor Curation team Sample Frame, Households [sf/hh] Version 2.1: Edited, cleaned, and anonymised data. PDM Cash Assistance Needs assessment Cash Assistance Basic Needs Bulgaria Bulgaria Sample survey data [ssd] UN Refugee Agency Computer Assisted Telephone Interview [cati] Households This file contains the household data dictionary. 258 117 ID 258 A1. Date 234 24 A7. Is the person registered to receive the cash from UNHCR, or another member of their household over the age of 18, available for this survey? 241 17 Oblast 187 71 Type of accommodation 216 42 B4. What is your sex? 218 40 B5. What is your age? 216 42 Instructions for enumerators: By “household” we mean people may or may not be relatives and who sleep under the same roof and take meals together at least four days a week. 258 FALSE 1 TRUE Missing value C1. How much cash did your household receive from UNHCR at the last distribution? 218 40 C12. What other sources of income or support has your household received or used in the last 4 weeks? 181 77 Formal income generating activities e.g. any business or activities generating money, or salary 181 77 Informal income generating activities e.g. casual /seasonal labour 181 77 Savings 181 77 Remittances 181 77 Support from friends / family (locally) 181 77 Loans (debt or credit) 181 77 NGOs/agencies – giving cash support 181 77 NGOs/agencies – giving material support 181 77 NGOs/agencies – giving other support 181 77 D1. Did you feel physically unsafe or at risk of harm during the last distribution: 258 FALSE 1 TRUE Missing value D1a. Going to withdraw or get the money? 218 40 D1b. Keeping the money at home? 218 40 D1c. Going to spend the money? 218 40 D1d. Did anything else make you feel physically unsafe or at risk of harm related to the cash assistance? 218 40 D1e. Why did you not feel physically safe? 5 253 D2. Did you experience any of these problems receiving/withdrawing or spending the cash from UNHCR? 258 FALSE 1 TRUE Missing value D2a. The registered person is not available to withdraw or access the money? 218 40 D2b. Wrong invalid or expired code? 218 40 D2c. Poor service at the financial service provider shop when withdrawing the money? 218 40 D2ca. What type of poor service did you experience? 3 255 D2e. Needed to pay additional money or do favours in order to withdraw or spend cash? 218 40 D2ea. Who did you need to give money or favours to? 2 256 Another household member 2 256 Another family member (outside the household) 2 256 Friend 2 256 Community leader 2 256 Stranger 2 256 FSP agent 2 256 D2f. Did you experience any other problems withdrawing or spending the cash from UNHCR? 218 40 D2fa. What problems did you face? 4 254 D2g. Did you find a solution to your problem? 20 238 D2ga. What problems remain? 1 257 E1. Were you able to find the items/services you needed in the markets/shops? 218 40 E1a. What items/services were not available? 12 246 E2. Were you able to find the right quality of items/services in the market? 218 40 E2a. What items/services were not available in sufficient quality? 10 248 E3. Has there been any increase in the price of any items/services in the last 4 weeks? 218 40 E3a. What items/services have increased in price? 121 137 F1. Of the cash you have received from UNHCR, how much have you spent already? 218 40 F2. What did you spend the UNHCR cash on? 218 40 Food 218 40 Water 218 40 Hygiene items 218 40 Health costs (including medicines) 218 40 Rent 218 40 Shelter repair (e.g. rehabilitation, materials) 218 40 Household items (e.g. mattress, blankets, jerry can) 218 40 Firewood / Fuel for cooking or heating 218 40 Clothes / shoes 218 40 Utilities and bills (e.g. electricity, water bills, phone calling credit) 218 40 Assets for a livelihood activity (e.g seeds, tools, farming, fishing, petty trade etc) 218 40 Education (e.g. school fees, uniform, books) 218 40 Entertainment (including alcohol, cigarettes) 218 40 Transport 218 40 Debt repayment 218 40 Gave some to other family members / relatives / friends 218 40 Legal assistance / documents 218 40 Toddler/baby/infant paraphernalia (food, clothes, education, etc,) 218 40 Please rank in order of importance 258 FALSE 1 TRUE Missing value 1st choice 218 40 2nd choice 196 62 3rd choice 127 131 4th choice 52 206 5th choice 28 230 Confirm if the reported information below makes sense. If not, check details with the respondent and correct the data entered. 258 FALSE 1 TRUE Missing value Amount received (from UNHCR at the last distribution) = ${unhcr_received} 258 FALSE 1 TRUE Missing value Amount spent = ${cash_spent_already} 258 FALSE 1 TRUE Missing value F4. Did you save any of the money? 216 42 F4a. Did you save any of the money on your account? 16 242 G1. To what extent has the cash assistance from UNHCR: 258 FALSE 1 TRUE Missing value G1a. Improved your living conditions? 218 40 G1b. Reduced feelings of stress? 218 40 G1c. Reduced the financial burden of your household? 217 41 G2. Overall, to what extent are you currently able to meet the basic needs of your household? 218 40 G2a. If more than half (but not all), half, a little or not at all: Which of your household’s basic needs can you not afford? 186 72 G3. In the past 4 weeks has your household needed to: 258 FALSE 1 TRUE Missing value a. Stop a child from attending school? 218 40 b. Sell livelihood/productive assets in order to buy food or basic goods? (e.g. sold items such as a car, motorbike, plough, sewing machine, tools, seed stock, livestock, productive land) 218 40 c. Ask for money from strangers (begging)? 218 40 d. Move to a poorer quality shelter? 218 40 e. Send household members under the age of 16 to work? 218 40 f. Send a member of the household to work far away? 218 40 g. Engage in activities for money or items that you feel puts you or other members of your household at risk of harm? (E.g. illegal activities, survival sex, drug dealing, early marriage, joining armed groups etc.) 218 40 h. Skip paying rent / debt repayments to meet other needs? 218 40 i. Take out new loans or borrowed money? 218 40 j. Reduce expenditure hygiene items, water, baby items, health, or education in order to meet household food needs? 218 40 I1. How did you hear about UNHCR cash assistance? 218 40 I2. Is there any other information you would like to know about the cash assistance? 218 40 Eligibility for cash assistance 218 40 How to spend the cash assistance 218 40 How to give complaints and feedback to agencies 218 40 What assistance is coming next 218 40 None (Don’t want any additional information) 218 40 I3. Do you know how you can report complaints and feedback on the cash assistance from UNHCR? 218 40 I3a. How could you report complaints and receive feedback? 110 148 Via community leaders 110 148 When visiting Blue Dots 110 148 Hotline 110 148 UNHCR/NGOs staff making initial referrals 110 148 Through the link to the feedback and complaints mechanism received in the eligibility SMS message 110 148 Don't know 110 148 I4. If the assistance could be started again would you prefer: 218 40 Province 258 FALSE 1 TRUE Missing value Option 1 258 FALSE 1 TRUE Missing value Option 2 258 FALSE 1 TRUE Missing value Accommodation 258 FALSE 1 TRUE Missing value Household size 252 6