Survey & market data

Household Surveys

Service overview

IGREC conducts household surveys across urban, rural, and hard-to-reach settings. We design instruments that respect respondents while producing accurate socioeconomic, health, livelihood, and service-access data.

Direct answer

Household survey services collect structured information from individuals and families. IGREC manages sampling, questionnaire design, field teams, quality checks, and secure data delivery. The findings support programme targeting, policy analysis, and evaluation.

Organisations needing representative, ethical, and decision-ready household data.

Tailored support

A service designed around the decision and field reality.

The scope connects research questions, methods, participants, operations, quality controls and final use.

Decision valueWhat this service helps you decide

Household decisions shape outcomes in health, education, agriculture, finance, WASH, labour, and social protection. However, weak sampling or unclear questions can distort those decisions.

IGREC designs surveys around local language, household structure, privacy, and recall limits. We also plan visits around work patterns, caregiving, farming seasons, and community access. Therefore, the sample reflects the intended population more reliably.

Expected outcomesWhat IGREC delivers

Representative data for defined populations and locations.
Clear measures of household conditions and behaviour.
Ethical handling of sensitive and personal information.
Lower item non-response and avoidable measurement error.
Datasets ready for analysis, reporting, and programme use.

Best suited toWho this service supports

This service supports ministries, NGOs, UN agencies, universities, foundations, health programmes, WASH programmes, agricultural organisations, financial inclusion initiatives, and social protection teams.

How IGREC delivers the service

A controlled process from mobilisation to handover.

01Define the household population.

We clarify eligibility, household membership, respondent selection, and geographic coverage.

02Build the sample.

We prepare frames, clusters, household selection rules, and replacement controls.

03Design respondent-centred tools.

We use clear language, logical modules, appropriate recall periods, and privacy safeguards.

04Manage field access.

We coordinate local entry, appointments, revisits, transport, and safeguarding procedures.

05Validate the data.

We monitor duration, consistency, location, missingness, outliers, and interviewer patterns.

Typical deliverables

A documented handover your team can use.

Sampling plan and household selection procedures
Questionnaire and translations
Enumerator manual and consent scripts
Daily fieldwork dashboard
Clean household-level dataset
Codebook, weights, and technical report

Why clients choose IGREC

Rigour connected to local implementation knowledge.

IGREC combines research discipline with practical community engagement. Our teams understand that good data starts with respectful introductions, informed consent, safe interviewing, and consistent respondent selection.

We also design for analysis from the beginning. Household identifiers, roster structures, units, skip patterns, and derived indicators remain consistent across the dataset.

Relevant IGREC experience

Evidence from related assignments.

IGREC's portfolio includes research with 16,150 households across three countries, 2,800 households and 3,800 land parcels, and more than 1,700 households with young children. It also includes household studies on health, water, poverty, land, finance, and refugee livelihoods.

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