Household Economy Analysis (HEA) Baseline Database
Household Economy Analysis (HEA) Baseline Database
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Wealth, Activity, and Strategy Insights

The Wealth, Activity, and Strategy Insights menu contains administrative screens for adding and managing Wealth Group Characteristic Values, Livelihood Activities, and Livelihood Strategies.

Wealth Group Characteristic Values

Wealth Groups are groups within a specific community categorized by a wealth category such as very poor, poor, and better off.

Wealth Group Characteristics are potential attributes of a wealth group. These are the items in column A of the “WB” tab of a BSS. This includes:

  • Assets like bicycles, mobile phones, fishing gear, and cashew trees.

  • Counts of assets like number died, number born, land area owned and cultivated.

  • Other community or household descriptors like number of children in school, main source of cash income, school levels commonly attained, and household size.

Wealth Group Characteristic Values are the values assigned to each of the attributes for a wealth group in a BSS. These values may be numerical or words/short phrases.

Wealth Group Characteristic Values have eight fields:

  • Wealth Group: Each value must be associated with a specific Wealth Group within a Baseline. The Wealth Group can be a summary value for the entire Baseline or can be a specific community within the Baseline.

  • Wealth Characteristic: Pick an item from the menu of Wealth Group Characteristics or create a new Wealth Group Characteristic from this page.

  • Reference Type: This indicates where the value comes from - Community Interviews (Form 3), Wealth Group Interviews (Form 4), or the Baseline Summary.

  • Product: If applicable, an associated product can be selected.

  • Unit of Measure: If applicable, a unit of measure can be selected.

  • Value: This is the value associated with the wealth group characteristic. For example, “55,” “true,” “yes,” or “primary.” This should not include a unit of measure.

  • Min_value: The minimum value of the possible range for this value.

  • Max_value: The maximum value of the possible range for this value.

Livelihood Activity

Livelihood activities are activities undertaken by households in a Wealth Group that produce food or income or require expenditure.

A Livelihood Activity contains the outputs of a Livelihood Strategy employed by one of the following:

  • A Wealth Group in a Community in the reference year.

  • A Wealth Group representing the Baseline as a whole in the reference year (the Baseline scenario).

  • A Wealth Group representing the Baseline as a whole in response to a shock (the Response scenario).

Livelihood activities contain 14 fields divided into 4 sections:

  • General information

    • Livelihood Strategy: The associated Livelihood strategy (e.g., milk production, crop production) for a specific BSS.

    • Scenario: The scenario in which the outputs of this Livelihood Activity apply (e.g. baseline or response).

    • Extra attributes: Any additional attributes from the BSS for this Livelihood Activity

  • Quantity: Indicates the number that was produced, purchased, consumed, sold, and/or used in another way. Note that the associated Livelihood Strategy contains a product and unit of measure and those items should not be included here.

  • KCals:

    • Total Kcals Consumed: Total kcals consumed by a household in the reference year from this livelihood strategy

    • Percentage: Percentage of annual household kcal requirement provided by this livelihood strategy

  • Economy

    • Price: Price per unit. Note that the associated Livelihood Strategy contains a product and unit of measure and those items should not be included here.

    • Income: Total annual household income derived from this Livelihood activity.

    • Expenditure: Total annual household expenditures on this Livelihood activity.

    • Activity done by: The group mainly responsible for carrying out this Livelihood Activity (e.g., men, women, children, or all)

Livelihood Strategy

Livelihood strategies are activities undertaken by households in a Livelihood Zone that produce food or income or require expenditure.

A Livelihood Strategy is not necessarily used by all Wealth Groups within a Livelihood Zone.

Livelihood strategies have the following fields:

  • Livelihood Zone Baseline: The associated Baseline.

  • Strategy Type: The type of livelihood strategy, such as crop production or wild food gathering.

  • Season: The season in which the Livelihood Strategy occurs.

  • Product: The product associated with the Livelihood Strategy. For example, if the strategy type is meat production, the associated product might be cattle.

  • Unit of Measure: The unit used to measure production from this Livelihood Strategy.

  • Currency: The currency of income or expenditure from this Livelihood Strategy.

  • Additional Identifier: Additional text identifying the livelihood strategy.

Note that the name of the Livelihood Strategy is a combination of the Livelihood Zone Baseline, Strategy type, Season, and Product. These pieces of information are essential for identifying a strategy.