Indicator

Score*

Description

ILAND

33

Household has access to more than 5 acres of land

67

Household has access to 1-5 acres of land

100

Household does not have access to land or has access to less than 1 acre of land

INONAG

33

Somebody in the household has a ‘high entry cost’ non-agricultural source of income, like being a professional, being permanently employed, owning a shop, business (trading, e.g. timber, agricultural produce, charcoal, transport), renting out rooms, etc.

67

Somebody in the household has a non-agricultural source of income like tailoring, crafts making, brewing beer, providing transport by driving boda boda, making and selling food etc., or the household receives remittances from family members working elsewhere, while nobody is engaged in high-entry cost activities

100

Nobody in the household is engaged in any of the above non-agricultural sources of income

IANIMAL

33

Somebody in the household has cattle or oxen, possibly together with other animals

67

Nobody in the household has cattle, but they have other animals (goats, sheep, pigs, chicken, turkeys or rabbits)

100

Nobody in the household have animals, not even chicken

IHIRE

33

Hire laborers for at least two of the following agricultural tasks: land clearing, ploughing, planting, weeding, harvesting or post-harvest processing

67

Do not hire laborers or hire laborers for one agricultural task only

IFOOD

33

Have not experienced a period of food shortage within the last year

67

Have experienced a period of food shortage within the last year which lasted less than two months or which lasted longer but the only recourse taken was eating less meat, using farm products rather than buying so much or buying food or that the husband day-labored more

100

Have experienced a period of food shortage within the last year which lasted two months or more

IFEED

33

Eat rice at least once a week; fry food at least once a week; and eat meat at least once a month

67

Eat rice less than once a week, or fry food only occasionally, or eat meat less than once a week

100

Eat rice less than once a month and eat meat less than once a month

IHOUSING

33

Have houses with walls of bricks or plastered walls and iron or tile roofs, and which are well maintained

67

Have houses which may have iron/tile roofs or brick or plastered walls, but not both conditions at once, or have both but are in need of maintenance

100

Have houses with walls made of old tins, banana or mud; or roofs that are grass thatched or made of polythene papers, banana fibre, old tins; or have houses that are in need of major repairs

IHEALTH

67

Nobody in the household had suffered from malaria, T.B., HIV/AIDS, anemia or chest-related diseases during the past year, or had done so, but the household had consulted the clinic with own money without the need to borrow money from relatives, neighbors, etc.

100

Somebody in the household had suffered from malaria, T.B., HIV/AIDS, anemia or chest-related diseases during the past year, but either the clinic had not been consulted due to lack of money the clinic had been consulted with money borrowed from relatives, neighbors, or made available through the sale of land or other assets

ISCHOOL

33

Have or have had children at secondary school or higher, and do not have children (girls or boys), including orphans, between 6 and 12 years who are not attending school