ETHIOPIA
Rural Household Survey
A High Concentration Country Study Program
Collaborators:
This study takes advantage of a unique opportunity to collect a new
round of data, with greater emphasis on intrahousehold issues, building on a
three-round survey of 1477 households in 15 sites in rural Ethiopia collected in
1994-1995 by the Economics Department of Addis Ababa University and the
Centre for the Study of African Economies, Oxford University. About 400
households in six sites were previously surveyed by IFPRI in 1989; these were
selected from drought-prone areas for the famine study (Webb, von Braun, and
Yohannes 1992). Three more sites from the North were added in the 1994-95
study -- in 1989 military conflict prevented survey work in sites north of Debre
Berhan -- and six more sites were added to cover the main agro-climatic and
farming systems of the richer parts of the country. These sites, while not
nationally representative, capture a variety of agro-ecological areas and ethnic
and religious groups.
The questionnaire for the first three rounds consists of a series of core
modules, such as consumption expenditure, wealth changes, incomes, health
outcomes, including anthropometrics on 9000 individuals and sources of income
shocks. In each round, data were also collected on specific issues, such as
community sharing mechanisms, parental background, migration, off-farm
activities, education, marriage histories, fertility, etc. Complementary
to the survey was a set of 15 village studies, covering a broad range of topics,
based on the views of local people, as elicited through rapid assessment
techniques. These village profiles were researched in the sites by Ethiopian
graduate students who used anthropological, qualitative techniques to
investigate the range of selected topics, and present local views of each of the
communities.
The new survey, which was designed to focus explicitly on intrahousehold
resource allocation, collects detailed information on many individual outcomes, such
as education and health, as well as information on factors affecting
allocation decisions within marriage. This resurvey of the panel households enabled IFPRI researchers to design
new modules which obtained information on instruments
(disaggregated by gender) as well as to understand more deeply the processes
underlying marriage markets in rural Ethiopia.
Main Research Team:
Agnes Quisumbing
John Maluccio
Ellen Payongayong
Marcel Fafchamps, Stanford University
Bereket Kebede, Oxford University and Addis Ababa University
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