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Baseline Assessment Questions

by Stephen Browne — last modified 02/28/2008 06:22

To view the answers to the following set of frequently asked questions simply click on the desired question.

What happens when some interviews with community leaders result in three wealth groups and others produce four wealth groups?

What should be done when teams return from community interviews from across the zone with different reference years? Since it is possible for two areas within one livelihood zone to have had quite different hazards in recent years, how is this reconciled?

 What happens when there are different types of activities within one wealth group? For instance, 30-40% might be doing petty trade whereas the other 60-70% are gathering firewood. They make more or less the same amount of income but the activities are different.

Sometimes it is easier for interviewees to remember the household economy data from the reference year based on their local calendar year rather than based on the consumption year. If this is the case, then there may be issues of accounting for stocks from the previous consumption year and losing some stocks from the year under scrutiny. How can this be dealt with?

What do you do with relatives that are there 30-50% of the time ‘eating from the Household pot’ but not for the remainder of the time. What household size figure do we take?

Should incentives be given to interviewees?

Sometimes the community interview information on food, cash and expenditure for different wealth groups differs from the information you receive from household representatives of those wealth groups. How is this resolved?
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