COVID-19 Rapid Response Phone Survey With Households 2020, Wave 1 (Kenya)

Tracks the socioeconomic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic and provide timely data to inform a targeted response. Contains information from the first wave of the COVID-19 RRPS for households which is part of a three-wave bi-monthly panel survey that targets Kenyan nationals. In this survey, the same households are interviewed every 2 months, between May and October 2020 using Computer Assisted Telephone Interviewing (CATI) techniques. It contains information from 2 samples of Kenyan households. The first sample is a randomly drawn subset of all households that were part of the 2015/16 Kenya Integrated Household Budget Survey (KIHBS) Computer-Assisted Personal Interviewing (CAPI) pilot. It covers urban and rural areas and is designed to be representative of the population of Kenya using cell phones. The second is made up of households whose members were randomly dialed from a list of active numbers created from the 2020 Numbering Frame produced by the Kenya Communications Authority. The Random Digit Dialing method was used for this sample. It includes information on household background, service access, employment, food security, income loss, transfers, health, and COVID-19 knowledge for 4,061 households.

he Kenya COVID-19 RRPS survey 2020 covered the following topics:
• Household Roster
• Travel Patterns & Interactions
• Employment
• Food security
• Income Loss
• Transfers
• Subjective welfare (50% of sample)
• Health
• COVID-19 Knowledge
• Household and Social Relations (50% of sample)