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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 Aug

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: 1947
Variables: 132

Variables

vga_uid
VGA unique ID
_r3SubmissionDate
Submission date of survey
_r3starttime
Start time of survey
_r3endtime
End time of survey
_r3surveydate
Date of survey
_r3surveyor_id
Surveyor ID
_r3survey_consent
Survey consent
_r3vga_gender
VGA (volunteer) gender
_r3kenya_residence
Do you currently live in Kenya?
_r3country_residence
Country of residence
_r3search_county
Enter atleast 4 letters of your county of residence
_r3county_residence
County of residence
_r3const_residence
Constituency of residence
_r3recall_submit
Do you recall submitting a county preference survey in 2018?
_r3mostpref1
County 1 most preferred to volunteer in (as of 2018 survey)
_r3mostpref2
County 2 most preferred to volunteer in (as of 2018 survey)
_r3leastpref1
County 1 least preferred to volunteer in (as of 2018 survey)
_r3leastpref2
County 2 least preferred to volunteer in (as of 2018 survey)
_r3county_mostpref
Were these 2 counties your most preferred or least preferred to volunteer in?
_r3county_leastpref
Were these 2 counties your most preferred or least preferred to volunteer in?
_r3ethnic_group
VGA ethnic group
_r3ethnic_group_other
Other ethnic group
_r3get_ethnic_grp
get_ethnic_grp
_r3num_hh
No. of household members
_r3grp_hh_members_count
grp_hh_members_count
_r3married_cohabit
Are you married and/or cohabiting?
_r3ethnicgrp_spouse
Ethnic group of their spouse or partner
_r3ethnicgrp_spouse_other
Other ethnic group of spouse
_r3num_children
How many children do you have?
_r3expect_children
Do you expect to have any children in the next 18 months?
_r3current_emp
Are you currently employed?
_r3seeking_emp
Are you currently seeking employment?
_r3numappsm
How many jobs have you applied to in the past month?
_r3interm
How many interviews have you had in the past month?
_r3why_unsuccesful
Why do you think your attempts to find work have been unsuccessful?
_r3why_unsuccesful_oth
Other reason(s) for unsuccessful job-search attempts
_r3job_seeking_where
Are you looking for jobs only within your county or even in other counties?
_r3other_counties_not
Why are you not open to working in other counties?
_r3other_counties_not_oth
Specify other reason(s) for not looking for work outside of your county
_r3earnedincm
Have you earned any income in the past month?
_r3incactm
What activities did you do to earn the income?
_r3incactmoth
Other income earning activity done to earn money
_r3incactmamt
How much did you earn in total (KES) in the past month?
_r3incactmamt_main
Income earned (KES) from main source in the past month?
_r3feb_emp
Were you employed in February 2020?
_r3taken_leave
Are you on leave or have you been furloughed by your employer from Feb 2020?
_r3feb_income
What was your household’s total monthly income in February 2020?
_r3july_income
What was your household’s total monthly income in July 2020?
_r3current_emp_nature
What is the nature of your current employment?
_r3current_emp_sector
Which sector do you work in?
_r3current_emp_hours
No. of hours worked per week last month
_r3allow_work_home
Does your job allow you to work from home?
_r3unable_work
Agree/Disagree: I am unable to do my job because of social distancing measures
_r3earnings_reduced
Agree/Disagree: My earnings have reduced because of social distancing measures
_r3lost_work
Agree/Disagree: I have lost work because of social distancing measures
_r3stressed_financially
Agree/Disagree: I’m stressed about my financial situation
_r3worried_savings
Agree/Disagree: In the past week I have worried if my savings would be enough
_r3my_ethnicgrp
People from my ethnic grp can be trusted to behave honestly and fairly
_r3other_ethnicgrp
People from other ethnic groups can be trusted to behave honestly and fairly
_r3nu_identity_level
Suppose you had to choose between being a Kenyan and [your ethnic grp]
_r3no_guarantee
Do you understand there's no guarantee that you receive the cash transfer?
_r3affect_response
Do you understand that your responses will not affect if you get the transfer?
_r3options_selected
Once selected, you are more likely to receive one of the options that you choose
_r3intrest_rate_0
interest rate: 0
_r3intrest_rate_0_25
interest rate: 0.25
_r3intrest_rate_0_5
interest rate: 0.5
_r3intrest_rate_1
interest rate: 1
_r3understood_game
Do you understand how the prediction game is played?
_r3cpred1
Get county for Pred Ques 1
_r3cpred2
Get county for Pred Ques 2
_r3cpred3
Get county for Pred Ques 3
_r3cpred4
Get county for Pred Ques 4
_r3pred1
prediction 1
_r3pred2
prediction 2
_r3pred3
prediction 3
_r3pred4
prediction 4
_r3psych_nervous
I am nervous when I think about current circumstances
_r3psych_calm_relaxed
I am calm and relaxed
_r3psych_own_health_worried
I am worried about my health
_r3psych_fam_health_worried
I am worried about the health of my family members
_r3psych_stressed_leaving_hous
I feel stressed about leaving my house as I may come in contact with others
_r3psych_upset_unexpectedly
In the last month how often have you been upset because of unexpected events
_r3psych_control_unable
How often have you felt you were unable to control the important things in life?
_r3psych_nervous_stressed
In the last month, how often have you felt nervous and stressed?
_r3psych_personal_problems
How often have you felt confident to handle personal problems?
_r3psych_going_yourway
In the last month, how often have you felt that things were going your way?
_r3psych_not_cope
How often have you found you couldn't cope with the things you had to do?
_r3psych_control_irritations
How often have you been able to control irritations in your life?
_r3psych_on_top_ofthings
In the last month, how often have you felt that you were on top of things?
_r3psych_outside_control
How often have you been angered because of things outside your control?
_r3psych_overcome_difficulties
How often have you felt difficulties were so high that you couldnt overcome them
_r3necessities
How much longer will you be able to afford basic necessities?
_r3agency_violence_paid_work
Time spent on paid work compared to before Covid-19
_r3agency_violence_child_care
Time spent on child care compared to before Covid-19
_r3agency_violence_hh_chores
Time spent on household chores compared to before Covid-19
_r3agency_violence_care_elderly
Time spent on elderly care compared to before Covid-19
_r3agency_violence_leisure
Time spent on leisure compared to before Covid-19
_r3v123
Time spent on religious activities compared to before Covid-19
_r3newsmedia_type
Which type of media do you primarily get your news from?
_r3newsmedia_type_other
newsmedia_type_other
_r3newsnews_source
Which of the following news sources do you ever read (or watch)?
_r3newsnews_source_other
news_source_other
_r3newsdaily_nation
How much do you trust Daily Nation?
_r3newsstandard
How much do you trust The Standard?
_r3newsstar
How much do you trust The Star?
_r3newsbbc
How much do you trust the BBC?
_r3newstaifa_leo
How much do you trust Taifa Leo?
_r3newsbusn_daily
How much do you trust Business Daily?
_r3newseast_african
How much do you trust the East African?
_r3newscitizen_tv
How much do you trust Citizen TV?
_r3newsghafla
How much do you trust Ghafla?
_r3newskbc
How much do you trust Kenya Broadcasting Corporation (KBC)?
_r3newsother
How much do you trust [Other news source]?
_r3hygiene_freq_washhands
How many times did you wash your hands yesterday?
_r3hygiene_mask_matatu
If you have to ride a mutatu for some reason, would you wear a face covering?
_r3hygiene_freq_mask_shopping
How often do you wear a mask or face covering when you are shopping?
_r3results_get_results1
results_get_results1
_r3results_get_results2
results_get_results2
_r3results_get_option
results_get_option
_r3results_get_rate
results_get_rate
_r3results_get_amount
results_get_amount
_r3meta_instanceID
meta_instanceID
_r3KEY
KEY
_r3amount
amount
_r3govt
Employed in govt job
_r3ft
Employed full time
_r3tinc000
Total monthly income (KES)
_r3anytinc
Any income generating activity (past month)
_r3psydistress
PCA psychological distress
_r3psychdistress2
psychological distress
spousematch
Spouse Match
_r3agreeotrust
Trust
Total: 132
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