Building State Capacity and National Unity with Market Design 2019
The Problem of Assignment in Kenya’s G-United Program

Kenya, 2019 - 2020

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Michael Kremer

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Data file: VGA Phone Survey Nov

Follow-up surveys for all applicants about where they were living, their employment, and
their beliefs on a range of questions dealing with national unity. The last two rounds (Aug and Nov 2020) also included questions related to impact of Covid-19 on employment, hygiene, financial situation etc.

Cases:	1836
Variables:	83

Variables

vga_uid

_r4SubmissionDate

_r4vfs_start

_r4vfs_end

_r4vfs_today

_r4grp_general_surveyor_id

_r4grp_general_survey_consent

_r4vga_gender

_r4search_county

Enter at least 3 letters of your county of residence

_r4county_residence

county of residence

_r4county_residence_other

county_residence_other

_r4const_residence

constituency of residence

_r4const_residence_other

constituency_residence_other

_r4county_mostpref

county_most preferred

_r4county_leastpref

county_least preferred

_r4ethnic_group

_r4ethnic_group_other

ethnic_group_other

_r4get_ethnic_grp

_r4num_hh

no. of household members

_r4grp_hh_members_count

grp_hh_members_count

_r4married_cohabit

Are you married and/or cohabiting?

_r4ethnicgrp_spouse

ethnic group of spouse

_r4ethnicgrp_spouse_other

ethnicgrp_spouse_other

_r4children

Have you had a child in the last 2 months?

_r4expect_children

Do you expect to have any children in the next 18 months?

_r4current_emp

Are you currently employed?

_r4seeking_emp

Are you currently seeking employment?

_r4numappsm

How many jobs have you applied to in the past month?

_r4interm

How many interviews have you had in the past month?

_r4why_unsuccesful

Why do you think your attempts to find work have been unsuccessful?

_r4why_unsuccesful_oth

Other reason(s) for unsuccessful job search

_r4job_seeking_where

Are you looking for jobs only within your county or even in other counties?

_r4other_counties_not

Why are you not open to working in other counties?

_r4other_counties_not_oth

_r4earnedincm

Have you earned any income in the past month?

_r4incactm

What activities did you do to earn the income?

_r4incactmoth

Please specify what other income earning activity you did to earn money

_r4incactmamt

How much did you earn (in KES) in total in the past month?

_r4incactmamt_main

How much money did you earn from your main income source in the past month?

_r4sept_income

What was your household’s total monthly income (KES) in September 2020?

_r4current_emp_nature

What is the nature of your current employment?

_r4current_emp_sector

Which sector do you work in?

_r4current_emp_hours

Please confirm the number of hours you worked per week last month

_r4allow_work_home

Does your job allow you to work from home?

_r4unable_work

Agree/Disagree: I am unable to do my job because of social distancing measures

_r4earnings_reduced

Agree/Disagree: oMy earnings have reduced because of social distancing measures

_r4lost_work

Agree/Disagree: I have lost work because of social distancing measures

_r4stressed_financially

Agree/Disagree: I’m stressed about my financial situation

_r4worried_savings

In the past week I have been worried if my savings would be enough to support me

_r4my_ethnicgrp

People from my ethnic group can be trusted to behave honestly and fairly

_r4other_ethnicgrp

People from other ethnic groups can be trusted to behave honestly and fairly

_r4nu_identity_level

Suppose you had to choose between being a Kenyan and being a [VGA ethnic_grp]

_r4grp_donation_game_donatecty

What county or counties do you want to donate to?

_r4donation_game_count_selected

grp_donation_game_count_selected

_r4consentgrp_donation_gamegrp_

grp_donation_game_grp_selected_counties_count

_r4donation_id

SET_OF_grp_donation_game_grp_selected_counties

_r4psych_nervous

I am nervous when I think about current circumstances

_r4psych_calm_relaxed

I am calm and relaxed

_r4psych_own_health_worried

I am worried about my health

_r4psych_fam_health_worried

I am worried about the health of my family members

_r4psych_stressed_leaving_hous

I feel stressed about leaving my house as I may come in contact with others

_r4psych_upset_unexpectedly

In the last month, how often have you been upset because of unexpected events?

_r4psych_control_unable

How often have you felt you were unable to control important things in life?

_r4psych_nervous_stressed

In the last month, how often have you felt nervous and stressed?

_r4psych_personal_problems

In the last month how often have you felt confident to handle personal problems?

_r4psych_going_yourway

In the last month, how often have you felt that things were going your way?

_r4psych_not_cope

How often have you felt you couldnt cope with all things that you had to do?

_r4psych_control_irritations

How often have you been able to control irritations in your life?

_r4psych_on_top_ofthings

In the last month, how often have you felt that you were on top of things?

_r4psych_outside_control

How often have you been angered because of things outside your control?

_r4psych_overcome_difficulties

How often have you felt difficulties were so high that you couldnt overcome them

_r4necessities

how much longer will you be able to afford to maintain basic necessities?

_r4agency_violence_paid_work

Time spent on paid work compared to before Covid-19

_r4agency_violence_child_care

Time spent on child care compared to before Covid-19

_r4agency_violence_hh_chores

Time spent on household chores compared to before Covid-19

_r4agency_violence_care_elderly

Time spent on elderly care compared to before Covid-19

_r4agency_violence_leisure

Time spent on leisure compared to before Covid-19

_r4v95

Time spent on religious activities compared to before Covid-19

_r4hygiene_freq_washhands

How many times did you wash your hands yesterday?

_r4hygiene_freq_mask_shopping

How often do you wear a mask or face covering when you are shopping?

_r4vfs_01_comment

_r4meta_instanceID

meta_instanceID

_r4KEY

Total: 83

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