Analysis ALCS 2013 14 Main Report English 20151222

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2.9 Analysis

Extensive programmes in Stata software package were revised or developed to perform final data verification-, correction-, editing- and imputation procedures A full dataset was available in July 2015 and a preliminary report with a limited set of key results was produced in the same month. 11 A team of eleven internal and external 12 analysts contributed to the present Analysis report. New methodological elements introduced in the analysis of ALCS 2013-14 include the following:  In view of the absence of a full module on food consumption and household expenditure in the 2013-14 round, alternative methods were developed and applied to estimate levels of poverty and food security. In chapter 7, survey-to-survey imputation is used to estimate poverty on the basis of a set of proxy indicators, which were calibrated with NRVA 2007-08 and 2011-12 data. In chapter 6, the Food Consumption Score FCS is used as a proxy indicator to measure caloric intake and diet quality at household level. In combination with the Coping Strategy Index CSI, this is assumed to properly indicate the food security situation in Afghanistan.  For the purpose of labour market analysis, the ALCS 2013-14 questionnaire included questions on occupation and industry. Context-specific occupation and industry codes were developed, based on, respectively ISCO and ISIC classifications. An elaborate section on labour migration is included in the analysis and for the first time an analysis of job earnings is added. Altogether, chapter 5 provides the most elaborate labour market analysis of Afghanistan to date.  One notable component of chapter 5 is the section on child labour section 5.5. The questionnaire module that provided the information for this section is based on newly developed UNICEF guidelines for measuring child labour and allows the production of child labour indicators according to both UNICEF and ILO definitions.  For the first time, ALCS is able to produce education transition-, completion- and drop-out rates, as well as the indicator of school life expectancy chapter 9.

2.10 Comparability of results