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Standardized Expanded Nutrition Survey (SENS), Kakuma and Kalobeyei Refugee Camps - 2018

Kenya, 2018
East and Horn of Africa
UNHCR
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Identification

Survey ID Number
UNHCR_KEN_2018_SENS_Kakuma_v2.1
Title
Standardized Expanded Nutrition Survey (SENS), Kakuma and Kalobeyei Refugee Camps - 2018
Country
Name Country code
Kenya KEN
Study type
Demographic and Health Survey [hh/dhs]
Abstract
The UNHCR Standardized Expanded Nutrition Surveys (SENS) provide regular nutrition data that plays a key role in delivering effective and timely interventions to ensure good nutritional outcomes among populations affected by forced displacement. UNHCR conducted an annual SENS nutrition surveys in Kakuma refugee camp and Kalobeyei Refugee Settlement.

At the time of the survey, the camp was hosting 186,515 refugees originating from 20 countries, comprised of 53.3% (99,320) males and 46.7% (87,195) females. These represented 148,295 from Kakuma and 38,220 from Kalobeyei and originating from 20 nationalities. The number of children under 5 years of age is currently estimated to be 20,468 from Kakuma and 7,576 from Kalobeyei or 15% of the total population. Women of reproductive age were 32,373 from Kakuma and 7,643 from Kalobeyei. According to the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) HIS database (Nov 2018), the main countries of origin are currently South Sudan, 57.8 %, and Somalia, 33.6 %, with the remaining percent originating from various countries in the region including Democratic republic of Congo (6.5%), Ethiopia (5.6%), and Burundi (5.4%) among others

Data collection started on the 26th November and ended on December 8th, 2018. The overall aim of this survey was to assess the general nutrition and health status of refugee population and formulate workable recommendations for appropriate nutritional and public health interventions.
Kind of Data
Sample survey data [ssd]
Unit of Analysis
Children 0-23 months
Children 6-59 months
Women 15-49 years
Households

Version

Version Description
- v2.1: Edited, anonymous dataset for licensed distribution.
Version Date
2020-01

Scope

Notes
- Children 0-23 months: feeding practices
- Children 6-59 months: prevalence of acute malnutrition, underweight, stunting and anaemia, coverage of vit A supplementation, and prevalence of diarrhoea
- Women 15-49 years: prevalence of anaemia
- Households: food security, WASH
Topics
Topic
Health and Nutrition
Health
Water Sanitation Hygiene
Food security
Food Distribution

Coverage

Geographic Coverage
Kakuma Refugee Camp and Kalobeyei Refugee Settlement in Turkana County, Kenya
Universe
Children 0-59 months
Women 15-49 years
Refugee households

Producers and sponsors

Primary investigators
Name
UNHCR

Sampling

Sampling Procedure
A two-stage cluster survey with probability proportion to size sampling was employed in this survey.
Standardized Monitoring and Assessment of Relief and Transitions (SMART) methodology to collect and analyse data on child anthropometry and UNHCR's Standardised Expanded Nutrition Survey (SENS) Guidelines for Refugee Populations was used to guide data collection for other indicators.

The same households sampled by SMART were used in all indicators. Anaemia sample was drawn from the SMART sample size, as recommended by the UNHCR Standardised Expanded Nutrition Survey (SENS) Guidelines.
For each of the indicators used, households and individuals were sampled as follows:

Household-level indicators:
- WASH: every household
- Food Security: every other household
- Mosquito net: every other household

Individual-level indicators:
- Children 0-59 months: all eligible children in all households were assessed (based on the above calculations)
- Women 15-49: all eligible women in every other household were assessed.

The sample size for children, 6-59 months, was calculated using ENA for SMART software (9th, July 2015) according to UNHCR SENS guidelines (version 2 (2013). The calculation was based on the expected prevalence of global acute malnutrition (GAM) in children, 6-59 months. A precision of 3.5; a design effect (DEFF) of 1.5 for Kakuma and 1 for Kalobeyei; an average household size of 6.6 in Kakuma and 5.2 in Kalobeyei; and, percentage of children under the age of five was estimated at 19.5% in Kakuma and 14.9% in Kalobeyei, using the UNHCR ProGres data, November 2019.

A two-stage cluster survey was conducted using the Standardized Monitoring and Assessment of Relief and Transitions (SMART) methodology to collect and analyse data on child anthropometry. Information on other indicators was collected and analysed using UNHCR's Standardised Expanded Nutrition Survey (SENS) Guidelines for Refugee Populations (Version 2 2013) (see www.sens.unhcr.org).

ENA for SMART selects the clusters (blocks), once done a team was sent to a block to label the households numerically with indelible pens. Population density varies across the blocks at Kakuma. If a block contained 100 households or less, all households in the block were marked. If a Block contained more than 100 households then the team walked around the block to identify a path that divided the block into approximately two halves. One portion of the block was selected randomly. In the selected segment of the block the team proceeded to number all households from the first to the last. If there was more than one household in a particular compound, this was indicated at the entrance of the compound (e.g. 2019 SENS HH1). The numbering and labelling was done two days prior to commencement of the survey.

If there was more than one household in a particular compound, this was indicated at the entrance of the compound (e.g. HH1-HH6). The numbering and labelling was done three days prior to commencement of the survey.

Data Collection

Dates of Data Collection
Start End
2018-11-26 2018-12-09
Data Collection Mode
Face-to-face interview: Mobile
Data Collectors
Name
UNHCR

Questionnaires

Questionnaires
1) Children 6-59 months (SENS Modules 1-2): Anthropometric status, oedema, enrolment in selective feeding programmes and blanket feeding programmes (CSB++), immunisation (measles), vitamin A supplementation in last six months, de-worming, morbidity from diarrhoea in past two weeks, haemoglobin assessment.
2) Children 0-23 months (SENS Module 3): Questions on infant and young children feeding practices.
3) Women 15-49 years (SENS Module 2): Pregnancy status, coverage of iron-folic acid pills and post-natal vitamin A supplementation, MUAC measurements for pregnant and lactating women (PLW), and haemoglobin assessment for non-pregnant women.
4) Food Security (SENS Module 4): Access and use of the general food ration (GFR), coping mechanisms when the GFR ran out ahead of time and household food dietary diversity using the food consumption score.

Access policy

Access authority
Name Affiliation Email
Curation Team UNHCR microdata@unhcr.org
Citation requirements
UNHCR (2021). Kenya: SENS in Kakuma and Kalobeyei Refugee Camps 2018. Accessed from https://microdata.unhcr.org

Metadata production

DDI Document ID
UNHCR_KEN_2018_SENS_Kakuma_DDI_v1.0
Producers
Name
UNHCR
Date of Metadata Production
2021-09
DDI Document version
1.0
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