The main objective of the NRVA 2005 was to collect information to better understand the livelihoods of  both males and females in Afghanistan from rural, urban and migratory populations. Questions were asked about many aspects including food & non-food consumption, income profiles, health, education, water, markets, transport, agriculture and livestock, land and house tenure, migration, income generation, assets, risks and shocks. 

Enumeration of the survey took place between June and August 2005. Public data release is expected in March 2005.  be data, once it is publicly available will also be mounted on an interactive database platform available through the Central Statistics Office web site- www.cso.gov.af. For those users who require access to the full data set, please fill in the following data request form and send it to NRVAinfo@yahoo.com.

NRVA 2005 Data request form [55KB]  

The explanation of the sampling frame and the primary sampling units are available from the links below, along with the English and Dari questionnaires. 

We used optical character recognition forms to allow scanning of the questionnaires and optical character recognition for data entry using the Teleform software, hence the Dari questionnaires are presented in the Teleform format used in the field for enumeration.

NRVA 2005 Sampling Scheme [53KB]

NRVA 2005 Questionnaires final English [312KB]

NRVA 2005 Questionnaires Dari Teleform Field format [1.5GB]

Although all districts were surveyed, 15 were done so with men alone due to security considerations -

NRVA 05 Districts surveyed by men alone [74 KB]

Results from NRVA 2005

Analysis of the the district market prices collected during the NRVA 2005.

NRVA 2005 District Market Price analysis [4MB]