Household water and welfare survey in Kitui County, Kenya 2018

A team of local enumerators used tablets to administer the survey. Data collection was conducted using questionnaires pre-loaded onto Android tablets. Given the low population densities of 11 to 54 people per square kilometre on a 4,769 km2 mass study area, all the villages in the subcounty were first plotted on a 10 km grid map and a strategy developed on how to sample the households. The villages revealed a non-uniform spread in the study area. It was therefore agreed to randomly sample at least 40 households around each village. Daily quality control was coordinated by a locally-based research manager with support from the Oxford team. The research was registered with Government of Kenya’s National Commission for Science, Technology and Innovation and complied with the University of Oxford’s research and ethics guidelines to ensure informed consent, confidentiality and no harm to all participants. The survey was conducted by the University of Oxford with support from Rural Focus Ltd in collaboration with Kitui County Governments’ Ministry of Agriculture, Water and Livestock Development, and the Government of Kenya’s Ministry of Education and County Ministry of Health, and UNICEF-Kenya.

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