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Rwanda Comprehensive Food Security and Vulnerability Assessment and Nutrition Survey 2015

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General Info
Provider 
National Institute of Statistics of Rwanda
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Geography 
Rwanda (RWA)
Coverage type 
Country
Time period covered 
04/2015 - 05/2015
Series or system 
Rwanda Comprehensive Food Security and Vulnerability Analysis
Comprehensive Food Security and Vulnerability Analysis (CFSVA)
Data type
Survey:
  • Community
  • Household
  • Individual
  • Interview
  • Nationally representative
  • Urban-rural representative
Summary 

The 2015 Rwanda Comprehensive Food Security and Vulnerability Assessment and Nutrition Survey was the fourth of this series, with the previous surveys conducted in 2006, 2009, and 2012. The purpose of the survey is to gather information on food and nutrition insecurity in Rwanda. Data were collected with a key informant questionnaire and a household questionnaire. The household questionnaire included a section to collect anthropometric measurements from children under five and females of reproductive age, as well as a section on infant and young child feeding practices. A total of 7,500 household households were surveyed, interviews were conducted with 6,768 females and anthropometric measurements were collected from 4,058 children. 749 key informant interviews were conducted.

Keywords 
Absenteeism, Agriculture, Anthropometry, Antihelminthics, Assets, Birth certificates, Breastfeeding, Child anthropometry, Child labor, Climate, Cooking fuels, Coping behavior, Cough, Crime, Crops, Dairy products, Diarrhea, Diet, Disability, Disasters, Edema, Education, Education access, Education expenditures, Electricity, Employment, Family composition, Family size, Fertility, Fertilizers, Fever, Fish, Food expenditures, Fruits, Health care access, Health care use, Health facilities, Health status, Height, Household air pollution, Household deaths, Household expenditures, Household water treatment, Housing, Housing conditions, Housing materials, Hygiene, Income, Insecticide-treated bednets, Land ownership, Legumes, Lighting, Literacy, Live births, Livestock, Loans, Lower respiratory infections, Malnutrition, Marital status, Mass media, Meat, Nonprofits, Nuts, Personal health expenditures, Pesticides, Poverty, Pregnancy, Prices, Processed foods, Public social assistance, Rainfall, Sanitation, School enrollment, Schools, Starchy vegetables, Summary birth history, Telephones, Transportation, Vegetables, Vitamin A supplements, Water supply, Weight
GHDx Entry last modified on: Aug 6, 2021