Village ID
Province Name
District Name
Treatment group
Election method
Selection method
Village-cluster ID
Physical condition of the house
Type of house
Number of rooms related to this house
How happy you are with your life?
Which year were your born?
What is your main job?
What is your highest official qualification?
How many people live in this household in total?
How many children under 15 live in this household?
How many men over 15 under 60 live in this household?
How many women over 15 under 60 live in this household?
How many people over 60 live in this household?
How many households are in this village in total?
What is your household's main source of drinking water?
Do they pay for receiving water from this source?
How often do you pay for water?
How much do you pay for water?
How long does it take to get to the water source, take water and come back?
How many times does your household use this main source of drinking water?
Does your family have access to electricity?
What is the main source of your electricity?
Who does this generator belongs to?
How many days has your house had electricity during the last 30 days?
How many days has your house had electricity on average during the last 30 days
How many hours per day did your house have electricity on average during the las
Do you pay for electricity?
How much money did you pay for electricity in the last 30 days?
Yearly change in access to electricity?
Whose efforts do you think resulted in this change?
Where do your patients usually receive treatment?
Is there a health worker available to treat a male patient at any hour?
Is there a health worker available to treat a female patient at any hour?
Yearly change in access to treatment facilities?
What do you mainly use for heating your house in the winter?
Yearly change in the number of children going to school?
What's the name of person who make decisions on behalf of people in the village?
Do these people have other status in the village too?
Who would settle a legal dispute between the villagers?
Who else would settle a legal dispute between the villagers?
Who would provide emergency borrowing for the villagers?
Who else would provide emergency borrowing for the villagers?
Who would provide nonemergency borrowing for the villagers?
Who else would provide nonemergency borrowing for the villagers?
Who is responsible for creating dev. projects or money for prod. activities?
Who else is responsible for creating dev. projects or money for prod. activities
Who will provide protection against war or invasion by insurgents?
Who will else provide protection against war or invasion by insurgents?
Who is responsible for irrigation in the village?
Who else is responsible for irrigation in the village?
Who is responsible for making rules and decisions in your village?
Who else is responsible for making rules and decisions in your village?
Is there a council in your village?
How many times did shura meet last year?
Did you or a member of your household visit the meetings of shura last year?
Are you or a member of your family member of the shura?
What was the main work done by shura last year?
What were other works done by shura last year?
What's the main work the council or village elders should do next year?
What's the second important work for your village this year?
What's the third important work for your village this year?
In whose benefit do elders make decicions?
Do the council or village elders take money in return for their services?
How often is this money taken?
How much money is this money?
Have people with influence done anything you did not agree with it?
What are the unjust things they carried out that you don't agree with?
Person becomes member of the council: through election by the people of village
Must be literate
God assigns him
Hereditary
Having good manners and behavior who have served people in the village
Someone who protected people of the village against crises and threats
A religious scholar/have good knowledge of the religion
Selected by religious scholars
Be a commander, mujahed, warlord
Selected by a commander, mujahed, warlord
Be an intelligent person/be an elderly
Selected by older men
Be the malik or arbab of the village
Selected by the malik or arbab of the village
Selected by other authorities of the village
Selected by other members of the council
Selected by the head of district
Selected by the governor
Selected by the central government
Selected by NGOs
Other
You think pers. should bec. mem. of the council: Through elec. by the villagers
Do you think a village itself should elect members of shura?
Are you happy with the performance of shura?
What the council did something that resulted in your dissatisfaction?
Do you think women should have membership of shura?
Do you think that women should have a separate council for themselves?
What is the first most important project among the stated projects to be execute
What is the second most important project among the stated projects to be execut
What is the third most important project among the stated projects to be execute
Is there a development project in this village?
What do these projects do?
Who sponsors the execution of these projects?
Who else sponsors the execution of these projects?
Have your or a member of your household cooperated with the project?
Did some of the people in your village give tax or presents to shura last year?
To whom did you pay this tax or present?
Was this assistance through cash, goods or work without pay?
What was goods assistance? Land
Livestock, livestock breeding
Products
Agriculture seeds
Agriculture tools
House equipments
What is the cost of the labor you did for them last year in Afs?
What is the value of assistance in Afs?
Who benefited from the assistance you provided?
Do you think that the people in the village should pay tax?
What percentage of their income should the people pay as tax?
If people in the village are obliged to pay tax, whom should they pay the tax to
Were you or a member of your family involved in activities for money last year?
Days family members were involved in money for work projects since last year
How much was the daily wages for this work?
Why members of your hh didn't participate in paid activities? No such activities
No member of our household had the desire to participate in this program
Members of our household were not selected by the council/village elders
Members of our household were not selected by NGOs
Members of our household were not selected by head of district/the government
Are there vocational training or literacy courses in your village?
What are the main subjects of these courses? Reading and writing
Accounting
Management
Civil law
Religious issues
Construction
Animal husbandry/Livestock breeding
Carpet weaving
Carpentry
Handicraft
Are these courses just for men or women, or for both men and women?
Why women can't participate in these courses? Women do not need such skils
Women do not like such courses
Chores take up all their time
Their husbands/fathers would not let them
Did anyone in your village have a legal case last year?
Has this case been settled?
Has anyone within or outside the village helped in settling this case?
Who has helped in settling this case?
Would you ask not a member of your hh from your village to transfer your money?
Has something like this ever happened?
Whom would government district authorities work for? - Some people
Whom would government provincial authorities work for? - Some people
Whom would president of Afghanistan work for? - Some people
Whom would members of Parliament work for? - Some people
Whom would commander work for? - Some people
Whom would members of the council work for? - Some people
Whom would people of the village work for? - Some people
Whom would village elders work for? - Some people
Whom would NGOs employees work for? - Some people
Do people ofthis village always help other people of the village when necessary?
Is cooperation among small groups of village better than in the entire village?
What was the most important income activity of your household?
How much of your household total income did this income activity make last year
In which season of the year did you make the income from it? - 4 seasons
Winter
Fall
Summer
Spring
How many Afs did you make in a month on average from this activity?
What was the second most important income activity of your household?
In which season of the year did you make the income generated from this activit
What was the third most important income activity of your household?
What was your household's total expenditure for food in the last 30 days?
What was your household's total expenditure for transportation fees in the last
What was your household's total expenditure for shoes and clothes in the last 3
What was your household's total expenditure for telephone costs in the last 30
What was your household's total expenditure for fuel for your car/motorbike in
What was the total expenditure of your household on tax (official/unofficial) i
What was the total expenditure of your hh on construction or repair of the house
What was the total expenditure of your household on medicine in the last 12 mon
What was the total expenditure of your household on doctor and hospital fees in
What was the total expenditure of your household on education fees in the last
What was the total expenditure of your hh on repair and maintenance of the car
What was the total expenditure of your household on penalty and loan payment in
What was the total expenditure of your household on wedding costs in the last 1
What was the total expenditure of your household on funeral costs in the last 1
What was the total expenditure of your household on hajj in the last 12 months?
What was the total expenditure of your household on traditional annual festival
What was the total expenditure of your household on charity and relief in the l
Has your household faced reduction in agricultural harvest?
Has your household faced war and insecurity?
Has your household faced Illness of a member of the household?
Has your household faced food price inflation?
Has your household faced reduction in the sale of agricultural products?
Has your household faced shortage of drinking water?
Has your household faced return of too many refugees?
Has your household faced redundancy of a household member?
Has your household faced salary reduction of a household member?
Has your household faced theft or loss of land or house?
Has your household faced theft or loss of livestock?
Has your household faced theft or loss of other properties?
How many times did you face problems when supplying food for your family last y
Has a member of your family visited Hajj in the last five years?
Does your household have a watch or a clock?
Does your household have a handmade carpet?
Does your household have a strip carpet/floor covering?
Does your household have a fridge?
Does your household have a radio?
Does your household have a mobile phone?
Does your household have a TV set?
Does your household have a carpet weaving hoop?
Does your household have a generator?
Does your household have a wheel borrow?
Does your household have a bicycle?
Does your household have a motorbike?
Does your household have a tractor?
Does your household have a plow?
Does your household have a car?
Does your household have a truck?
Does your household have livestock or chickens
How many cows do you have?
Does your household have cows?
How many horses do you have?
Does your household have horses?
How many donkeys do you have?
Does your household have donkeys?
How many goats do you have?
Does your household have goats?
How many sheeps do you have?
Does your household have sheep?
How many birds/chicken do you have?
Does your household have chicken?
How many camels do you have?
Does your household have camels?
Do you or a member of your family have access to a type of agriculture land or
How many jireeb of personally owned land did your family have access to?
How many jireeb of not personally owned land did your family have access to?
How many jireeb of personally owned irrigated land did your family have access
How many jireeb of not personally owned irrigated land did your family have acc
How many jireeb of personally owned rainfeed land did your family have access t
How many jireeb of not personally owned rainfeed land did your family have acce
What is the first most important product you grow in the summer?
What is the second most important product you grow in the summer?
What is the third most important product you grow in the summer?
What is the first most important product you grow in the winter?
What is the second most important product you grow in the winter?
What is the third most important product you grow in the winter?
What are the main sources of your land irrigation in the summer?
What are the main sources of your land irrigation in the winter?
Did you farm land in the last season/harvest?
Did you lease land in the last season/harvest?
Did you have the land on franchise in the last season/harvest?
Did you have an assigned farmer in the last season/harvest?
Did you lease your land in the last season/harvest?
Did you franchise your land in the last season/harvest?
How many jireeb of your garden remained uncultured in the last year
How many jireeb of your irrigated land remained uncultured in the last year
How many jireeb of your rain fed land remained uncultured in the last year
What was the reason for not growing this land? - There was no water
There was an argument over water issue
Did not have money for crop
There was an argument over the ownership of the land
Security problems
The land was not fertile
Did you sell your harvest in the last season?
First Did you sell the vegetations you received in the last harvest?
Second Did you sell the vegetations you received in the last harvest?
Third Did you sell the vegetations you received in the last harvest?
Fourth Did you sell the vegetations you received in the last harvest?
Fifth Did you sell the vegetations you received in the last harvest?
How much money did you make from selling the last season's produce?
Did you sell most of your products in the market?
Where did the person you sold most of your product to come from?
What is the job of the person to whom you sold your produce?
Could you choose who to sell your products to?
Why couldn't you select the buyer to your products yourself?
Where is the location of the market where you sold most of your products?
Have you or any member of your family received a loan ?
Why did you get this loan? - To reimburse another loan
Purchase food items
Emergency illness/purchase medicine
Purchase a house
Construction or repair the house
Other construction work (except the house)
House rent
Irrigation system/digging well/drinking water
Generator or power
Purchase land
Purchase agriculture seeds or the major agriculture goods
Purchase equipment/agriculture tools
Purchase livestock
Purchase a bicycle
Purchase car/motorbike/truck
Purchase a TV set
Purchase a radio
Purchase a phone set
Purchase of other house items
Education and training
Wedding
Dowry
Funeral
Hajj
Donation for the mosque
Donation for the council
Donation for commander/mujahedin etc
Donation for the malik, village elder
Donation to another leader outside the village
Could you get a loan?
Why was it not possible to get a loan? - There wasn't anyone to get a loan from
The interest on the loan was high, loan reimbursement was too much
Did not have anything to put as collateral
Had not paid the previous loan
Cultural barrier (getting a loan makes me despair)
Religious reasons (interest is unlawful)
Fear of being unable to return the loan
Sorted it out some other how and found money
Decided that getting a loan is not necessary
Was this loan in cash or goods?
Should the reimbursement of this loan be in cash or goods?
How much Afs was your main loan?
How many months did you have for your main loan reimbursement?
Where does your lender live?
What is the job of the person from who you got most of the loan?
How much of your main loan did you pay back?
Did you pay interest on your loan?
What is the percentage of payable interest?
How much should your household pay back for the main loan?
If your hh needs to get a loan who will be the first person they would go to?
No one/would not get a loan
Why doesn't your hh have anyone to get a loan from? - There isn't anyone to get
Do not have collateral
Have not paid back the previous loan(s)
Do not have friends and family members here
Do not have friends and family members outside Afghanistan
Cultural barriers (causes despair)
Will not feel comfortable here with getting a loan
Religious reasons- do not want to pay interest
Plan to modify the construction of the house
Plan to purchase a new land for crop and agriculture
Plan to purchase new land to build new or expand old house
Plan to purchase accessories and new agriculture machinery
Plan to purchase a car or a motorbike
Plan to purchase a mobile phone
Plan to purchase a TV set
Plan to produce other goods and do business within the village
Plan to produce other goods and do business outside the village
Plan to visit the provincial capital
Plan to jointly work with other people of the village on project for the villag
Plan to donate money or goods to the projects of the village
Plan to participate in the chamber of the council or village elders
Plan to participate and influence the decisions of the council/village elders
Plan to visit Hajj
Plan to participate in vocational training or literacy courses
Plan to send one or more sons to school
Plan to send one or more daughters to school
Can you read this message for me?
How much is 5 times 6?
What is the name of your area’s representative in the parliament?
Who is the President of Afghanistan?
From which source do you know about the incidents in your country?
Have you ever heard about the national solidarity program?
Does the national solidarity program fund any project in your village?
Are girls in your village allowed to go to school?
Why do girls in your village don't go to school? - Girls do not need education
Girls do not like education
Chores at home and working in the farm take up all their time
Their fathers would not let the girls
Others
Did you vote in the last parliamentary elections?
Will you vote in the next parliamentary elections?
Did you vote in the last presidential election?
Would you participate in the next presidential elections?
Has your household condition improved, remained the same or deteriorated?
Please tell us how happy are you with your life?