Water Portfolio Household Survey Round 2, Kilifi County, Kenya, 2023

Hillesland, Marya and Doss, Cheryl (2024). Water Portfolio Household Survey Round 2, Kilifi County, Kenya, 2023. [Data Collection]. Colchester, Essex: UK Data Service. 10.5255/UKDA-SN-857244

The data collection was supported by the REACH programme funded by UK Aid from the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) for the benefit of developing countries (Programme Code 201880), and by the Measures for Advancing Gender Equality (MAGNET) initiative funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (Programme Code INV-005620).

Data description (abstract)

The survey was administered in Kaloleni, Magarini, and Ganze of Kilifi County, Kenya. These sub-counties are mainly rural, and many households consist of a large homestead with several small huts built on the compound. Often extended families live together on the compound and share daily tasks. In some homesteads, co-wives reside together, although not necessarily in the same dwelling. Many of these households engage in rainfed agriculture and often rely on water collected from multiple sources of water away from the compound for their domestic needs and livestock.

The household survey had two components: a household questionnaire and an individual questionnaire. The household-level questionnaire was first administered to the primary respondent who makes the decisions and is the most informed about the household’s water choices. After administering the household-level questionnaire, each adult household member 18 years and older was interviewed privately. The individual questionnaire included survey tools developed as part of MAGNET focus on dimensions of women’s agency: control over assets and decision making.

Data creators:

Creator Name	Affiliation	ORCID (as URL)
Hillesland Marya	University of Oxford
Doss Cheryl	Tufts University

Contributors:

Name	Affiliation	ORCID (as URL)
Twyman Jennifer	Aurelia Consulting	https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8581-5668
Mutua Mercy	International Center for Tropical Agriculture Kenya: Nairobi, KE	https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2899-0678
Claire Clingain	International Rescue Committee
Alethia Donald	World Bank

Sponsors:

Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

Topic classification:

Natural environment
Economics
Society and culture

Keywords:

DECISION MAKING, HOUSEHOLD WATER CHOICES, RURAL HOUSEHOLDS, WATER PORTFOLLIO, INTRAHOUSEHOLD, ASSETS, PREFERENCES, WATER INSECURITY

Date published:

02 Jul 2024 13:26

Last modified:

02 Jul 2024 13:26

Coverage and Methodology

Collection period:

Date from:	Date to:
1 January 2023	28 February 2023

Geographical area:

Kilifi County

Country:

Kenya

Data collection method:

Excluding the more populated, urban centers, sub-locations in Kilifi 3 sub-counties were selected purposively to target those rural sub-counties with higher prevalence of polygamous households and extended family households.

Within each of the sub-counties, two locations were randomly selected: Kayafungo and Mwanamwinga in Kaloleni, Marafa and Bungale in Magarini, and Ganze and Sokoke in Ganze. Within each location, there are multiple sub-locations. The listing, conducted in August 2022, involved first visiting the official offices at the sub-locations for complete list of villages. This resulted in identifying 206 villages. Excluding the urban and peri-urban villages, 99 villages were randomly selected to list. Listing all the households in a village involved calling each village leader of the selected villages and requesting a list of all the households. The team then travelled to that village to confirm the list of households by meeting with the village leader, checking the list with other village members, and through visual observation.

The survey sample was pre-established to include 630 households. From the 99 listed villages, 50 villages were selected for first round of data collection (October 2022). For this round, 30 villages were randomly selected from the 49 villages not previously selected. Within these 30 villages, 315 households were randomly selected. For the other 315 households, the team first selected all polygamous households with co-wives that lived together in the same compound in the list that had not yet been selected. Then, the team randomly selected extended family households (i.e. those with mothers-in-law and daughters-in-law) from the list of remaining households. Sampling weights are used in the analysis to adjust for oversampling.

The interviews were administered in person with a tablet (CAPI). In each of these households, the primary respondent and up to eight additional adults were interviews.

Observation unit:

Individual, Household

Kind of data:

Numeric

Type of data:

Other surveys

Resource language:

English

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