Individual-level Data

The CVFS has collected data on the communities in the Chitwan Valley of Nepal since 1995.

This documentation page contains information about each individual-level data file currently available for analysis. Information including data collection date, methods, sample characteristics, reporting period, and topics measured is provided for each data file. Research published using the data are listed here, with links to the full citation. Codebooks, questionnaires, and instruments can be downloaded from this page. A link to where the data file is archived and availability of online analysis is also provided.

Individual Level Household Census Data, Public-Use - DS3

Date of data collection	Methods	Sample	Retrospective reporting period	Topics	Publications	Codebooks	Questionnaires/ Instruments	Archive	Analysis online
1996	Face-to-face interview Structured Professional interviewers Paper and pencil, “Household Census and Relationship Grid” instrument. Household census data (DS 3 and DS4) and Household Relationship Grid data (DS15 and DS16) were collected during the same interview	N = 9,839 Response rate = 100% All 1,805 households within the 171 Chitwan Valley sample neighborhoods Any household member was allowed to participate, and interviewers encouraged multiple household members to participate	Present for all variables, except residential status for which the reporting period was past 6 months	For each member of the household, the following information was collected: age, gender, marital status, and residence status (lived in the household in the last 6 months or not), where individual lives now and when individual left (if not currently in household)	Barber et al. 1997	(PDF)	(PDF)	ICPSR 4538	Available

Individual Level Household Census Data, Restricted Use - DS4

Date of data collection	Methods	Sample	Retrospective reporting period	Topics	Publications	Codebooks	Questionnaires/ Instruments	Archive	Analysis online
1996	Face-to-face interview Structured Professional interviewers Paper and pencil, “Household Census and Relationship Grid” instrument Household census data (DS 3 and DS4) and Household Relationship Grid data (DS15 and DS16) were collected during the same interview	N = 9,839 Response rate = 100% All 1,805 households within the 171 Chitwan Valley sample neighborhoods Any household member was allowed to participate, and interviewers encouraged multiple household members to participate	Present for all variables, except residential status for which the reporting period was past 6 months	For each member of the household, the following information was collected: age, gender, marital status, and residence status (lived in the household in the last 6 months or not), where individual lives now and when individual left (if not currently in household)	Barber et al. 1997	(PDF)	(PDF)	ICPSR 4538	Not available

Household Relationship Grid, Public-Use - DS15

Date of data collection	Methods	Sample	Retrospective reporting period	Topics	Publications	Codebooks	Questionnaires/ Instruments	Archive	Analysis online
1996	Face-to-face interview Structured Professional interviewers Paper and pencil, “Household Census and Relationship Grid” instrument Household census data (DS 3 and DS4) and Household Relationship Grid data (DS15 and DS16) were collected during the same interview	N = 9,868 Response rate = 100% All 1,805 households within the 171 Chitwan Valley sample neighborhoods Any household member was allowed to participate, and interviewers encouraged multiple household members to participate Household members include everyone who lived in the household (e.g., family, visitors, workers, etc.) for more than 15 days as recorded in the Household Registry	Present	For each member of the household, information was collected about their relationships to every other household member (parent, child, sibling, spouse, or other)	Barber et al. 1997 Axinn et al. 2017 Ghimire et al. 2015 Jennings. 2014 Jennings et al. 2012	(PDF)	(PDF)	ICPSR 4538	Available

Household Relationship Grid, Restricted-Use - DS16

Date of data collection	Methods	Sample	Retrospective reporting period	Topics	Publications	Codebooks	Questionnaires/ Instruments	Archive	Analysis online
1996	Face-to-face interview Structured Professional interviewers Paper and pencil “Household Census and Relationship Grid” instrument Household Relationship Grid data and Household Census data collected during the same interview	N = 9,868 Response rate = 100% All 1,805 households within the 171 Chitwan Valley sample neighborhoods Any household member was allowed to participate, and interviewers encouraged multiple household members to participate Household members include everyone who lived in the household (e.g., family, visitors, workers, etc.) for more than 15 days as recorded in the Household Registry	Present	For each member of the household, information was collected about their relationships to every other household member (parent, child, sibling, spouse, or other)”	Barber et al. 1997 Axinn et al. 2017 Ghimire et al. 2015 Jennings. 2014 Jennings et al. 2012	(PDF)	(PDF)	ICPSR 4538	Not available

1996 Individual Interview Data, Public-Use - DS11

Date of data collection	Methods	Sample	Retrospective reporting period	Topics	Publications	Codebooks	Questionnaires/ Instruments	Archive	Analysis online
1996	Face-to-face interview Structured Professional interviewers Paper and pencil Individual Interview instrument Individual Interview and Individual Life History calendar data were collected during the same interview	N = 5,271 Response rate = 97% All residents of the 171 Chitwan Valley sample neighborhoods between the ages of 15 and 59 and their spouses (regardless of age or residence)	Present (1996) and past twelve months, as well as retrospective reporting of childhood community context, marriage, and receiving and distributing possessions/inheritance	Information about respondents’ communities of childhood residence, non-family experiences, religion and religiosity, marital and family relationships, social networks, and a broad array of attitudes toward marriage, contraception, and childbearing	Axinn et al. 2017 Axinn and Barber. 2001 Axinn and Yabiku. 2001 Axinn et al. 1999 Barber. 2004 Barber and Axinn. 2004 Barber et al. 2002 Barber et al. 2000 Barber et al. 1997 Beutel and Axinn. 2002 Biddlecom et al. 2005 Brauner-Otto and Axinn. 2017 Ghimire. 2016. Ghimire et al. 2006 Ghimire and Mohai. 2005 Hoelter et al. 2004 Jennings and Pierotti. 2016 Matthews et al. 2000 Yabiku. 2006 Yabiku. 2006 Yabiku. 2005 Yabiku. 2004	(PDF)	(PDF)	ICPSR 4538	Available

1996 Individual Interview Data, Restricted Use - DS12

Date of data collection	Methods	Sample	Retrospective reporting period	Topics	Publications	Codebooks	Questionnaires/ Instruments	Archive	Analysis online
1996	Face-to-face interview Structured Professional interviewers Paper and pencil Individual Interview instrument Individual Interview and Individual Life History calendar data were collected during the same interview	N = 5,271 Response rate = 97% All residents of the 171 Chitwan Valley sample neighborhoods between the ages of 15 and 59 and their spouses (regardless of age or residence)	Present (1996) and past twelve months, as well as retrospective reporting of childhood community context, marriage, and receiving and distributing possessions/inheritance	Information about respondents’ communities of childhood residence, non-family experiences, religion and religiosity, marital and family relationships, social networks, and a broad array of attitudes toward marriage, contraception, and childbearing	Axinn et al. 2017 Axinn and Barber. 2001 Axinn and Yabiku. 2001 Axinn et al. 1999 Barber. 2004 Barber and Axinn. 2004 Barber et al. 2002 Barber et al. 2000 Barber et al. 1997 Beutel and Axinn. 2002 Biddlecom et al. 2005 Brauner-Otto and Axinn. 2017 Ghimire. 2016. Ghimire et al. 2006 Ghimire and Mohai. 2005 Hoelter et al. 2004 Jennings and Pierotti. 2016 Matthews et al. 2000 Yabiku. 2006 Yabiku. 2006 Yabiku. 2005 Yabiku. 2004	(PDF)	(PDF)	ICPSR 4538	Not available

2008 Individual Interview Data, Restricted-Use - DS27

Date of data collection	Methods	Sample	Retrospective reporting period	Topics	Publications	Codebooks	Questionnaires/ Instruments	Archive	Analysis online
2008	Face-to-face interview Structured Professional interviewers Paper and pencil Recontact or New Contact 2008 Individual Interview instrument Individual Interview and Individual Life History calendar data collected during the same interview	N=5,190 Response rate = 93.4%-98.3% depending on sample category, 97.1% overall The 2008 Individual Interview sample is drawn from 151 Chitwan Valley Neighborhoods. From these neighborhoods,everyone included in the following four categories was interviewed: All Household members living in the 2008 sample neighborhoods aged 15-34 Spouses of anyone in category one (but not in sample 1) Parents of any unmarried respondents in category one (but not in sample 1 and 2). These parents may or may not be living in the sample neighborhoods All others in the 151 neighborhoods between the ages of 35 and 59 (but not in sample 2 and 3 above) Important Note: DS27 excludes respondents who do not belong to the four sample categories listed above. See DS39 for a restricted-use Time 2 Individual Interview Data file that includes all of the eligible sample categories.	Present (2008) and past twelve months, as well as retrospective reporting of childhood community context, marriage, and receiving and distributing possessions/inheritance	Content included in the T1 individual interview plus new ideational measures assessing values and beliefs about societal attributes, modern family life, family change, freedom and equality, and Inglehart’s measures of traditional/secular-rational and survival/self-expression values, and Schwartz’s measures of value orientations	Allendorf. 2017 Allendorf and Thornton. 2015 Thornton et al. 2019	(PDF)	Recontact 2008 Individual Interview (PDF) New Contact 2008 Individual Interview (PDF)	ICPSR 4538	Not available

1996 and 2008 panel Data Combination, Restricted-Use - DS29

Date of data collection	Methods	Sample	Retrospective reporting period	Topics	Publications	Codebooks	Questionnaires/ Instruments	Archive	Analysis online
1996 and 2008	See DS12 and DS27	N = 3,621 Response rate = 95% 1996: All residents of the 151 CVFS sample neighborhoods that were tracked over time using the CVFS household registry system (HHR). These are individuals who were between the ages of 15 and 59 in 1996 and their spouses (regardless of age and residence) 2008: Re-interviewed everyone interviewed in 1996 from 151 CVFS sample neighborhoods, excluding 219 individuals who died between 1996 and 2008, 87 permanent Indian residents, 72 individuals living in Group Quarters, and 4 individuals who were misidentified in 1996. A resulting sample of 4,264 individuals were eligible for panel data collection. Of the total 4,264 eligible individuals, 4,050 respondents were re-interviewed (95% response rate). 3,621 cases are available for analysis in this data set. Important Note: The DS29 file excludes Time 2 individual interview respondents who belong to some sample categories. See DS41 for a restricted-use Time 1 and Time 2 individual interview file that includes all Time 2 individual interview eligible sample categories.	Present (1996) and past twelve months, as well as retrospective reporting of childhood community context, marriage, and receiving and distributing possessions/inheritance	All content included in the Time 1 Interview (1996) and T2 Interview (2008)	Brauner-Otto and Axinn. 2017	(PDF)	See DS12 and DS27	ICPSR 4538	Not available

2008 Individual Interview Data (Full Sample), Public-Use - DS38

Date of data collection	Methods	Sample	Retrospective reporting period	Topics	Publications	Codebooks	Questionnaires/ Instruments	Archive	Analysis online
2008	Face-to-face interview Structured Professional interviewers Paper and pencil Recontact or New Contact 2008 Individual Interview instrument Individual Interview and Individual Life History calendar data collected during the same interview	N = 9,593 Response rate = 92.12% The 2008 Individual Interview sample is drawn from 151 Chitwan Valley Neighborhoods. From these neighborhoods, everyone included in 24 categories was interviewed. See the variable “sample” in the codebook for a description of the 24 categories	Present (2008) and past twelve months, as well as retrospective reporting of childhood community context, marriage, and receiving and distributing possessions/inheritance	Content included in the T1 individual interview plus new ideational measures assessing values and beliefs about societal attributes, modern family life, family change, freedom and equality, and Inglehart’s measures of traditional/secular-rational and survival/self-expression values, and Schwartz’s measures of value orientations		(PDF)	Recontact (PDF) New Contact (PDF)	ICPSR 4538	Available

2008 Individual Interview Data (Full Sample), Restricted-Use - DS39

Date of data collection	Methods	Sample	Retrospective reporting period	Topics	Publications	Codebooks	Questionnaires/ Instruments	Archive	Analysis online
2008	Face-to-face interview Structured Professional interviewers Paper and pencil Recontact or New Contact 2008 Individual Interview instrument Individual Interview and Individual Life History calendar data collected during the same interview	N = 9,593 Response rate = 92.12% The 2008 Individual Interview sample is drawn from 151 Chitwan Valley Neighborhoods. From these neighborhoods, everyone included in 24 categories was interviewed. See the variable “sample” in the codebook for a description of the 24 categories	Present (2008) and past twelve months, as well as retrospective reporting of childhood community context, marriage, and receiving and distributing possessions/inheritance	Content included in the T1 individual interview plus new ideational measures assessing values and beliefs about societal attributes, modern family life, family change, freedom and equality, and Inglehart’s measures of traditional/secular-rational and survival/self-expression values, and Schwartz’s measures of value orientations		(PDF)	Recontact (PDF) New Contact (PDF)	ICPSR 4538	Not available

1996 Individual Interview Data and 2008 Individual Interview Data (Full Sample), Restricted Use - DS41

Date of data collection	Methods	Sample	Retrospective reporting period	Topics	Publications	Codebooks	Questionnaires/ Instruments	Archive	Analysis online
Time 1: 1996 Time 2: 2008	See DS12 and DS39	N = 10,806 See DS12 and DS39	See DS12 and DS39	See DS12 and DS39		(PDF)	Individual Interview, Recontact 2008 (PDF) Individual Interview, and New Contact 2008 (PDF) Individual Interview Instruments (PDF)	ICPSR 4538	Not available

2016 Individual Interview Nepal-CIDI Data (Release A), Restricted Use - DS42

Date of data collection	Methods	Sample	Retrospective reporting period	Topics	Publications	Codebooks	Questionnaires/ Instruments	Archive	Analysis online
2016	Face-to-face or telephone interview Structured Professional interviewers CAPI Survey Instrument Survey adapted from the World Mental Health-Composite International Diagnostic Interview (WMH-CIDI) Paper and pencil Life History Calendar instrument	N = 10,714 Response rate = 93% All residents of the 151 Chitwan Valley sample neighborhoods between the ages of 15 and 59	Lifetime experience with mental disorders	Release A includes: Education and Experience (Demographics) Screening Diagnostic variables	Zhang and Axinn 2021 Axinn and Chardoul 2021 Cole et al. 2021 Zhang and Axinn 2021 Axinn et al. 2020a Axinn et al. 2020b Benjet et al. 2020 Scott et al. 2020 Ghimire et al. 2017	(PDF)	Survey Instrument (PDF) Life History Calendar (PDF)	ICPSR 4538	Not available

1996 Individual Life History Calendar Data, Public-Use - DS13

Date of data collection	Methods	Sample	Retrospective reporting period	Topics	Publications	Codebooks	Questionnaires/ Instruments	Archive	Analysis online
1996	Face-to-face interview Semi-structured Professional interviewers Paper and pencil Life History Calendar instrument Individual Interview and Individual Life History calendar data were collected during the same interview	N = 5,271 Response rate = 97% All residents of the 171 CVFS sample neighborhoods between the ages of 15 and 59 and their spouses (regardless of age and residence)	Birth of respondent (earliest 1937) to 1996	Information about respondents’ residence (migration), marital events, childbearing, contraceptive use, living arrangements, travel, education, and employment since birth	Axinn and Barber. 2001 Axinn and Yabiku. 2001 Axinn et al. 1999 Barber and Axinn. 2004 Barber et al. 2002 Barber et al. 2000 Barber et al. 1997 Beutel and Axinn. 2002 Maples et al. 2002	(PDF)	(PDF)	ICPSR 4538	Available

2008 Individual Life History Calendar Data, Restricted-Use, DS28

Date of data collection	Methods	Sample	Retrospective reporting period	Topics	Publications	Codebooks	Questionnaires/ Instruments	Archive	Analysis online
2008	Face-to-face interview Semi-structured Professional interviewers Paper and pencil Recontact or New Contact Life History Calendar Instrument Individual Interview and Individual Life History calendar data were collected during the same interview	N = 5,190 Response rate = 97% The sample includes: (1) individuals between the ages of 15-34 living in the 151 sample neighborhoods; (2) spouses of these married individuals (referred to in 1 above) who may or may not be living in the sample neighborhoods; (3) parents of any of these unmarried individuals (referred to in 1 above) who may or may not be living in the sample neighborhoods; and (4) all other individuals residing in the sample neighborhoods between the ages of 35-59	New contact respondents: birth of respondent (earliest 1937) to 2008 Recontact respondents: 1996 (date of T1 Individual Interview) to 2008	Information about respondents’ residence (migration), marital events, childbearing, contraceptive use, living arrangements, travel, education, and employment. Recontact respondents reported information since the last survey (1996), new contact respondents reported information since birth	Axinn et al. 1999 Barber et al. 1997	(PDF)	Recontact 2008 Life History Calendar (PDF) New Contact 2008 Life History Calendar (PDF)	ICPSR 4538	Not available

Child-Level Data, Public-Use - DS5

Date of data collection	Methods	Sample	Retrospective reporting period	Topics	Publications	Codebooks	Questionnaires/ Instruments	Archive	Analysis online
1996	Face-to-face interview Structured Professional interviewers Paper and pencil, Child Sheet Instrument, Section C of the Individual Interview instrument Administered during the Individual Interview	N = 7,494 Response rate = 97% All female residents of the 171 CVFS sample neighborhoods between the ages of 15 and 59 who ever had a child/children	Birth of respondent’s first child to present (1996)	For each child the woman had ever had the following information was collected: for living children, information about schooling, school dropout, expectation about their educational achievement, and breast feeding. For a deceased child, information was collected about length of survival and whether the child was seen by a doctor before death	Barber et al. 1997	(PDF)	(PDF)	ICPSR 4538	Available

Household Registry, Public-Use - DS9 (54 months)

Date of data collection	Methods	Sample	Retrospective reporting period	Topics	Publications	Codebooks	Questionnaires/ Instruments	Archive	Analysis online
Monthly data collection began in 1997 Data set includes data through month 54	Face-to-face interview Structured Professional interviewers Paper and pencil Household Registry Instrument	N = 21,780 Response rate = 98% All households within the 151 CVFS sample neighborhoods	Past month or past three months. (At month 40 interviews were conducted every 3 months instead of monthly, but the data collected remained precise to the month.)	Monthly information from the restricted-use data (DS10) was collapsed into 18 quarters of 3 months each. For each quarter, the following information was recorded about each member of the household: age, gender, living arrangement (living in household or away from household), place of residence (which district), marital status, and pregnancy status (females only)	Axinn et al. 2012 Barber et al. 1997 Brauner-Otto. 2014 Ghimire and Axinn. 2013 Jennings. 2014 Jennings et al. 2012 Massey et al. 2010 (“Community services and out-migration” ) Massey et al. 2010 (“Environmental change and out-migration”) Williams. 2015 Williams et al. 2012	(PDF)	(PDF)	ICPSR 4538	Available

Household Registry, Restricted-Use - DS10 (54 months)

Date of data collection	Methods	Sample	Retrospective reporting period	Topics	Publications	Codebooks	Questionnaires/ Instruments	Archive	Analysis online
Monthly data collection began in 1997 Data set includes data through month 54	Face-to-face interview Structured Professional interviewers Paper and pencil Household Registry Instrument	N = 21,870 Response rate = 98% All households within the 151 CVFS sample neighborhoods	Past month or past three months. (At month 40 interviews were conducted every 3 months instead of monthly, but the data collected remained precise to the month.)	Information for months 1-54 about each resident’s age, gender, ethnicity, living arrangement (living in household or away from household), place of residence (which district), marital status, and pregnancy status (females only)	Axinn et al. 2012 Barber et al. 1997 Brauner-Otto. 2014 Ghimire and Axinn. 2013 Jennings. 2014 Jennings et al. 2012 Massey et al. 2010 (“Community services and out-migration” ) Massey et al. 2010 (“Environmental change and out-migration”) Williams. 2015 Williams et al. 2012	(PDF)	(PDF)	ICPSR 4538	Not available

Household Registry Data at 126 Months, Public-Use - DS25

Date of data collection	Methods	Sample	Retrospective reporting period	Topics	Publications	Codebooks	Questionnaires/ Instruments	Archive	Analysis online
Monthly data collection began in 1997 Data set includes data through month 126	Face-to-face interview Structured Professional interviewers Paper and pencil Household Registry Instrument	N = 4,558 Response rate = 97.10%-100%, varies monthly All households within the 151 CVFS sample neighborhoods including new households that moved into the neighborhoods between the 1996 and the 2008 household census	Past month or past three months. (At month 40 interviews were conducted every 3 months instead of monthly, but the data collected remained precise to the month.)	Monthly information from the restricted-use data (DS26) was collapsed into 42 quarters of 3 months each. For each quarter, the following information was recorded about each resident: age, gender, living arrangement (living in household or away from household), place of residence (which district), marital status, and pregnancy status (females only)	Axinn et al. 2012 Allendorf et al. 2017 Barber et al. 1997 Brauner-Otto. 2014 Ghimire and Axinn. 2013 Jennings. 2014 Jennings et al. 2012 Jennings. 2017 Jennings. 2016 Jennings and Pierotti. 2016 Massey et al. 2010 (“Community services and out-migration” ) Massey et al. 2010 (“Environmental change and out-migration”) Massey et al. 2010 Pearlman et al. 2017 Smith-Greenaway et al. 2018 Williams. 2015 Williams et al. 2012	(PDF)	(PDF)	ICPSR 4538	Available

Household Registry Data at 126 Months, Restricted-Use - DS26

Date of data collection	Methods	Sample	Retrospective reporting period	Topics	Publications	Codebooks	Questionnaires/ Instruments	Archive	Analysis online
Monthly data collection began in 1997 Data set includes data through month 126	Face-to-face interview Structured Professional interviewers Paper and pencil Household Registry Instrument	N = 4,558 Response rate = 97.10%-100%, varies monthly All households within the 151 CVFS sample neighborhoods including new households that moved into the neighborhoods between the 1996 and the 2008 household census	Past month or past three months. (At month 40 interviews were conducted every 3 months instead of monthly, but the data collected remained precise to the month.)	Information for months 1-126 about each resident’s age, gender, ethnicity, living arrangement (living in household or away from household), place of residence (which district), marital status, and pregnancy status (females only)	Axinn et al. 2012 Allendorf et al. 2017 Barber et al. 1997 Brauner-Otto. 2014 Ghimire and Axinn. 2013 Jennings. 2014 Jennings et al. 2012 Jennings. 2017 Jennings. 2016 Jennings and Pierotti. 2016 Massey et al. 2010 (“Community services and out-migration” ) Massey et al. 2010 (“Environmental change and out-migration”) Pearlman et al. 2017 Smith-Greenaway et al. 2018 Williams. 2015 Williams et al. 2012	(PDF)	(PDF)	ICPSR 4538	Not available

Household Registry Data at 240 Months, Restricted-Use - DS33

Date of data collection	Methods	Sample	Retrospective reporting period	Topics	Publications	Codebooks	Questionnaires/ Instruments	Archive	Analysis online
Monthly data collection began in 1997 Data set includes data through month 240	Face-to-face or telephone interview Structured Professional interviewers Paper and pencil Household Registry Instrument through month 192 CAPI Household Registry Instrument months 193-240	N = 61,273 Response rate = 97%-100%, varies monthly All households within the 151 CVFS sample neighborhoods including new households that moved into the neighborhoods between the 1996 and 2008 household census. After 2008, new households that resided in a sample neighborhood for 15 days or longer were added continuously to the sample. Households with members who participated in the 2016 WMH-CIDI were followed regardless of residence.	Past month, past 3 months, or past 6 months. (At month 40 interviews were conducted every 3 months and at month 194 every 6 months instead of monthly, but the data collected remained precise to the month.)	Information for months 1-240 about each resident’s age, gender, ethnicity, living arrangement (living in household or away from household), place of residence (which district), marital status, and pregnancy status (females only). Also includes education, school ID, current detailed location, migration location, household type.		(PDF)	(PDF)	ICPSR 4538	Not available

1996 Individual Interview Data and Household Registry Data at 240 Months, Restricted-Use - DS37

Date of data collection	Methods	Sample	Retrospective reporting period	Topics	Publications	Codebooks	Questionnaires/ Instruments	Archive	Analysis online
Individual Interview: 1996 Household Registry: Monthly data collection began in 1997 and includes data through month 240	See DS12 and DS33	N = 61,905 See DS12 and DS33	See DS12 and DS33	See DS12 and DS33		(PDF)	Individual Interview (PDF) HH Registry (PDF)	ICPSR 4538	Not available

2008 Individual Interview Data (Full Sample) and Household Registry Data at 240 Months, Restricted-Use - DS40

Date of data collection	Methods	Sample	Retrospective reporting period	Topics	Publications	Codebooks	Questionnaires/ Instruments	Archive	Analysis online
T2 Individual Interview: 2008 •Household Registry: monthly data collection began in 1997; data set includes data through month 240	See DS39 and DS33	N = 61,283 See DS39 and DS33	See DS39 and DS33	See DS39 and DS33		(PDF)	HH Registry (PDF) New Contact (PDF) Recontact (PDF)	ICPSR 4538	Not available

Household Registry Away Data, Months 1-36, Restricted-Use - DS21

Date of data collection	Methods	Sample	Retrospective reporting period	Topics	Publications	Codebooks	Questionnaires/ Instruments	Archive	Analysis online
Monthly data collection began in 1997 Data set includes data through month 36	Face-to-face interview Structured Professional interviewers Paper and pencil Away Sheet portion of the Household Registry Instrument	N = 7,543 Response rate = 98% All households within the 151 CVFS sample neighborhoods with individuals living away from home	Present	Monthly information about household members living away form the home including away person’s place of residence, reason for leaving the house, whether the person sends any remittances, ethnicity, gender, and age	Barber et al. 1997	(PDF)	(PDF)	ICPSR 4538	Not available

Family Planning Data, Public-Use - DS6

Date of data collection	Methods	Sample	Retrospective reporting period	Topics	Publications	Codebooks	Questionnaires/ Instruments	Archive	Analysis online
Monthly data collection began in 1997 Data set includes data through month 54	Face-to-face confidential interview Semi-structured Professional interviewers Paper and pencil Family Planning Sheet portion of the Household Registry Instrument	N = 10,527 Response rate = 92% All residents between the ages of 18 and 45 in the 151 CVFS sample neighborhoods	The last 3 months, except for respondents who were younger than 18, for whom the retrospective reporting period after they turned 18 was up to the past 58 months	Monthly information from the restricted-use data was collapsed into 18 quarters of 3 months each with information about family planning methods used/not used during that period	Barber and Axinn 2004 Barber et al. 1997 Brauner-Otto. 2013 Ghimire and Axinn. 2013 Williams et al. 2012	(PDF)	(PDF)	ICPSR 4538	Available

Family Planning Data, Restricted-Use - DS7

Date of data collection	Methods	Sample	Retrospective reporting period	Topics	Publications	Codebooks	Questionnaires/ Instruments	Archive	Analysis online
Monthly data collection began in 1997 Data set includes data through month 126	Face-to-face confidential interview Semi-structured Professional interviewers Paper and pencil Family Planning Sheet portion of the Household Registry Instrument	N = 17,922 Response rate = 79.87%-98.73%, varies monthly All residents between the ages of 18 and 45 in the 151 CVFS sample neighborhoods including new households that moved into the neighborhoods between the 1996 and the 2008 household census	The last 3 months, except for respondents who were younger than 18, for whom the retrospective reporting period after they turned 18 was up to the past 58 months	Monthly information about family planning methods used/not used	Barber and Axinn 2004 Barber et al. 1997 Brauner-Otto. 2013 Ghimire and Axinn. 2013 Williams et al. 2012	(PDF)	(PDF)	ICPSR 4538	Not Available

Season 1-5 Women's Time Use Survey Data, Public-Use - DS18+

Date of data collection	Methods	Sample	Retrospective reporting period	Topics	Publications	Codebooks	Questionnaires/ Instruments	Archive	Analysis online
Season 1: August-December, 2015 Season 2: January- May 2016 Season 3: May-September 2016 Season 4: September 2016-January 2017 Season 5: March- June 2017	Face-to-face or telephone interview Semi-structured Professional interviewers Paper and pencil Women’s Time Use Survey	• N = 12,105 • Response rate = 95.14% • All women between the ages of 18 and 59 residing in farm households in the 151 CVFS sample neighborhoods	Past 24 hours for number of hours worked on a given activity, and past month for number of days worked on a given activity	Number of hours worked in various household (farming and non-farming) activities in the past 24 hours, and the number of days worked in each activity in the past month		(PDF)	(PDF)	ICPSR 36755	Available

2016 Mother Survey Data, Restricted-Use - DS43

Date of data collection	Methods	Sample	Retrospective reporting period	Topics	Publications	Codebooks	Questionnaires/ Instruments	Archive	Analysis online
2016	Face-to-face interview Structured Professional interviewers CAPI survey instrument	N = 2,046 Response rate = 96% All residents of the 151 Chitwan Valley sample neighborhoods age 18 and older who are the mother or female guardian of a child age 0 to 17 years	Present (2016), last month, last week, and lifetime experiences	Educational attainment Group membership Work Husband’s work	Brauner-Otto et al. 2019	(PDF)	(PDF)	ICPSR 4538	Not Available

2019 Mother Survey Data, Restricted Use - DS54

Date of data collection	Methods	Sample	Retrospective reporting period	Topics	Publications	Codebooks	Questionnaires/ Instruments	Archive	Analysis online
2019	Face-to-face interview Structured Professional interviewers CAPI survey instrument	N = 2,325 Response rate = 90% All residents of the 151 Chitwan Valley sample neighborhoods age 18 and older who are the mother or female guardian of a child age 0 to 17 years or the mother or female guardian of a child age 0 to 17 years who participated in the 2016 child health data collection and currently reside outside a sample neighborhood elsewhere within the Chitwan district	Present (2019) and lifetime experiences	Educational attainment Selection and influence in choosing a spouse Household possessions, energy sources, water sources, sanitation facilities Livestock ownership Housing quality		(PDF)	(PDF)	ICPSR 4538	Not Available

2016 Mother Calendar Data, Restricted-Use - DS44

Date of data collection	Methods	Sample	Retrospective reporting period	Topics	Publications	Codebooks	Questionnaires/ Instruments	Archive	Analysis online
2016	Face-to-face interview Structured Professional interviewers Paper and pencil Mother’s Employment History Calendar instrument	N = 2,046 Response rate = 96% All residents of the 151 Chitwan Valley sample neighborhoods age 18 and older who are the mother or female guardian of a child age 0 to 17 years	2008-2016	Salaried job Wage labor Business ownership Income	Brauner-Otto et al. 2019	(PDF)	(PDF)	ICPSR 4538	Not Available

2019 Mother Calendar Data, Restricted Use - DS56

Date of data collection	Methods	Sample	Retrospective reporting period	Topics	Publications	Codebooks	Questionnaires/ Instruments	Archive	Analysis online
2019	Face-to-face interview Structured Professional interviewers Paper and pencil Household Remittance Calendar instrument	N = 2,096 Response rate = 90% All residents of the 151 Chitwan Valley sample neighborhoods age 18 and older who are the mother or female guardian of a child age 0 to 17 years or the mother or female guardian of a child age 0 to 17 years who participated in the 2016 child health data collection and currently reside outside a sample neighborhood elsewhere within the Chitwan district	2013-2020	Farming Land use Land ownership Remittances		(PDF)	(PDF)	ICPSR 4538	Not Available

2016 Child Health Survey Data, Restricted-Use - DS45

Date of data collection	Methods	Sample	Retrospective reporting period	Topics	Publications	Codebooks	Questionnaires/ Instruments	Archive	Analysis online
2016	Face-to-face interview Structured Professional interviewers CAPI survey instrument	• N = 3,330 • Response rate = 96% • All children between the ages of 0 and 17 years who have a mother or female guardian who is a resident of the 151 Chitwan Valley sample neighborhoods	Present (2016), last 2 weeks, and retrospective reporting of child’s birth	Birth information Vaccination history Perception of health Recent illness Child care Education	Brauner-Otto et al. 2019	(PDF)	(PDF)	ICPSR 4538	Not Available

2019 Child Health Survey Data, Restricted Use - DS55

Date of data collection	Methods	Sample	Retrospective reporting period	Topics	Publications	Codebooks	Questionnaires/ Instruments	Archive	Analysis online
2019	Face-to-face interview Structured Professional interviewers CAPI survey instrument	N = 3,656 Response rate = 93% All children between the ages of 0 and 17 years who have a mother or female guardian who is a resident of the 151 Chitwan Valley sample neighborhoods or who participated in the 2016 child health data collection and currently reside outside a sample neighborhood elsewhere within the Chitwan district	Present (2019) and retrospective reporting of child’s birth	Birth information Vaccination history Perception of health Breastfeeding Preventative care	Brauner-Otto et al. 2019	(PDF)	(PDF)	ICPSR 4538	Not Available

2019 Student Survey Data, Restricted-Use - DS46

Date of data collection	Methods	Sample	Retrospective reporting period	Topics	Publications	Codebooks	Questionnaires/ Instruments	Archive	Analysis online
2019	Face-to-face interview Structured Professional interviewers CAPI survey instrument	• N = 4,588 • Response rate = 94% • All 8th grade students enrolled in 114 schools within the study area, the Western Chitwan Valley of Nepal	Present (2019) and lifetime experience enrolled in school	School enrollment history Future aspirations Current educational experiences Scholarships School characteristics Classroom characteristics	Available Soon	(PDF)	(PDF)	ICPSR 4538	Not Available

2019 Parent Survey Data, Restricted-Use - DS47

Date of data collection	Methods	Sample	Retrospective reporting period	Topics	Publications	Codebooks	Questionnaires/ Instruments	Archive	Analysis online
2019	Face-to-face interview Structured Professional interviewers CAPI survey instrument	• N = 4,606 • Response rate = 94% • A parent or guardian of all 8th grade students enrolled in 114 schools within the study area, the Western Chitwan Valley of Nepal	Present (2019), past 12 months, and lifetime experience	Household wealth Personal and family experience Expectations for child Child’s educational experiences, school characteristics, and classroom characteristics Satisfaction with child’s school	Available Soon	(PDF)	(PDF)	ICPSR 4538	Not Available

2019 Teacher Survey Data, Restricted-Use - DS48

Date of data collection	Methods	Sample	Retrospective reporting period	Topics	Publications	Codebooks	Questionnaires/ Instruments	Archive	Analysis online
2019	Face-to-face interview Structured Professional interviewers CAPI survey instrument Paper and pencil Life History Calendar instrument	• N = 906 • Response rate = 96% • 8th grade teachers who taught during the 2018-2019 educational year at 114 schools within the study area, the Western Chitwan Valley of Nepal	Present (2019), past 12 months, and lifetime experience	Education and training Employment Teaching experience Instructional practice and quality Satisfaction with school and teaching Community involvement School finances	Available Soon	(PDF)	(PDF)	ICPSR 4538	Not Available

2019 Head Teacher Survey Data, Restricted-Use - DS49

Date of data collection	Methods	Sample	Retrospective reporting period	Topics	Publications	Codebooks	Questionnaires/ Instruments	Archive	Analysis online
2019	Face-to-face interview Structured Professional interviewers Paper and pencil survey instrument Paper and pencil School History Calendar instrument	• N = 113 • Response rate = 99% • Head teachers (principals) at 114 schools within the study area, the Western Chitwan Valley of Nepal	Present (2019), past 12 months, and lifetime experience	Education and training Employment Community facilities School management Head teacher experiences Community involvement School finances	Available Soon	(PDF)	(PDF)	ICPSR 4538	Not Available

2019 School Management Committee Survey Data, Restricted-Use - DS50

Date of data collection	Methods	Sample	Retrospective reporting period	Topics	Publications	Codebooks	Questionnaires/ Instruments	Archive	Analysis online
2019	Face-to-face interview Structured Professional interviewers Paper and pencil survey instrument	• N = 109 • Response rate = 96% • Presidents of the School Management Committees at 114 schools within the study area, the Western Chitwan Valley of Nepal	Present (2019) and past 12 months	School background School resources School management Community involvement School finances	Available Soon	(PDF)	(PDF)	ICPSR 4538	Not Available

2019 Parent Teacher Association Survey Data, Restricted-Use - DS51

Date of data collection	Methods	Sample	Retrospective reporting period	Topics	Publications	Codebooks	Questionnaires/ Instruments	Archive	Analysis online
2019	Face-to-face interview Structured Professional interviewers Paper and pencil survey instrument	• N = 108 • Response rate = 95% • Member of the Parent Teacher Association at 114 schools within the study area, the Western Chitwan Valley of Nepal	Present (2019) and past 12 months	School background School management PTA role at school School resources Community involvement School finances	Available Soon	(PDF)	(PDF)	ICPSR 4538	Not Available

2019 Basic Level Examination Score Data, Restricted-Use - DS52

Date of data collection	Methods	Sample	Retrospective reporting period	Topics	Publications	Codebooks	Questionnaires/ Instruments	Archive	Analysis online
2019	Education records from the Bharatpur Metropolitan City Office	N = 4,660 Response rate = 100% All 8th grade students enrolled in the 114 schools within the study area, the Western Chitwan Valley of Nepal	2019	Test scores Gender Age Ethnicity Attendance	Available Soon	(PDF)		ICPSR 4538	Not Available

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