SOCIAL ANALYSIS GUIDE QUESTIONS

 Household composition and resource base?

o How many siblings do you have?
 What are the names of your siblings?
o Do you live with your parents?
 What are the names of your parents or guardian?
o Do you have other people living with you in your house?
o Do you have a wife or a husband? What is his/her name?
o How many children do you have? What are their names?
o Do they attend school? Where and what level are they in?
o Are you from a province? What province?
 Education Status?
o What is your educational status?
 Capacity Status?
o What are the different knowledge skills and capacity of the household members?
 Health Status?
o What illnesses did they experience in past 6 months?
o Are they any member from the family with disabilities?
o How is the physical health status of the people in the community?
 Are they clean physically?
 Do they have problems with their eyesight?
 Do they have dental problems?
 Do they have scars, wounds or rashes?
 Do they have skin diseases?
 Are they underweight or overweight?
 Do they have lice?
 What land, water, livestock, and plant or forest resources do household members use inside and
outside the village? What do they use them for?
 What are the terms of access and exchange (ownership, rental, share arrangements, open-
access, passage, leasing, milk for grazing)?
 How do they maintain their natural resources?
o Where or how do they learn how to conserve/maintain their natural resources?
o Do they have programs in terms of maintaining their environment?
o Who implement and who are part of the program?
 What is the condition of the air and water sources in the area? Do they have concerns with air
or water pollution.
 What infrastructure do household members have access to and use (transport, marketing
facilities, health facilities, water supply)? What infrastructure do they not have access to and
why?
 What materials are these structures made of? Are they safe or hazard for the community? Can it
service the people in the community?
 What services are available in the community?
 Do they have electricity? (What percentage does have electricity?)
 What is the condition of the roads in the community?
 Are their lights along the road?
 Do they have facilities for recreation? (sports, parks etc.)
 Are there plants or trees in the community?
 What are the terms of access to and maintenance of different types of infrastructure (payment,
open access, individual or “pooled”, etc.)?
 What tools or equipment do household members use during different livelihood activities and
what are the terms of access to them (ownership, hire, sharing, etc.)? How and by whom are
they maintained?
 What is the situation of their drainage system? Is it working well or not?
 How do they handle their household waste? Are there facilities that they use?
 What is the situation of their house?
o What materials is it made of? (concrete, wood etc.)
o Do they own, pay rent or use it for free?
o Do they have access to clean water?
o Do they have a toilet bowl? Does it work? How?
 Who owns the land where their houses are located?
 Are they in a safe place or in a danger zone?
 What is the source of income? How many members and who have work or contribute to family’s
income?
 Do they receive remittances? Regularly or not?
 What are the earnings of the household from different sources (crop & livestock sales,
processing, off-farm activities, business, forest products, fishing, remittances, gifts)?
 What other sources of finance are available and how important are they (bank credit,
moneylenders)?
 Do they have insurance (health, life or death insurance)?
 How do they use their income? What expenses do they have? Do they prioritize some expenses
or not?
 What links does the household have with other households or individuals in the community
(kinship, social group, membership in social, economic and religious organisations, political
contacts, patronage)?
 In what situations do those links become important and how (mutual assistance, pooling
labour)?
 Do they have links outside the community? Are they beneficiaries of programs by the gov’t or
other groups? What benefits do they get from this?
 What is their religion? family?
 How is the peace and order situation in the area?