Poverty Assessment Survey Uganda - Field Technical Report

This document is a field technical report consisting of a survey conducted by Nkoola Institutional Development Associates (NIDA) for testing poverty assessment tools in Uganda. This report presents:

• The sampling procedures;
• Summary of survey cases;
• Experiences in the data collection process.

The survey involved:

• Adaptation of the questionnaires;
• Sampling: Three stage sampling was used to arrive at the respondents:
  • Stage one - sampling districts and sub-counties;
  • Stage two - selection of enumeration areas;
  • Stage three - selection of individual households.
• Data Collection:
  • Community, as well as, price questionnaires were administered in all the 25 enumeration areas;
  • A total of 800 household were interviewed using the composite tool, while 782 benchmark questionnaires were administered to the sample households.
• Data management.

The paper details some of the aspects of the survey:

• The village local council (LC) committee members and opinion leaders were interviewed on community issues;
• Locations were restricted to either rural or urban, some were urban-rural and rural-urban;
• Some hurdles faced in conducting the survey included:
  • Estimation of food eaten by household members outside the household;
  • Unconventional units of some foodstuffs;
  • The actual financial base of respondents;
  • Evaluation of unsurveyed family lands;
  • Distinction between the actual foodstuffs consumed by the poor and the rich;
  • Estimation of houses in square feet.