Malawi - Schooling, Income, and Health Risk Impact Evaluation Household Survey 2010

The Schooling Income and Health Risk (SIHR) project is a randomized evaluation of a conditional and unconditional cash transfer intervention targeting young women in Malawi that provided incentives (in the form of school fees and cash transfers) to current schoolgirls and recent dropouts to stay in or return to school. The program, known as the Zomba Cash Transfer Program (ZCTP), took place in Zomba, Malawi during 2008 and 2009. The incentives include average payment of US$10 a month conditional on satisfactory school attendance and direct payment of secondary school fees.The SIHR project was specifically designed to answer a number of important questions about cash transfer programs for which there is little prior evidence. First, almost all information about the impacts of these programs come from Latin America, where income levels are much higher and institutional capacity is vastly superior compared with many poor countries in Sub-Saharan Africa. Second, the evidence base to effectively choose program design parameters (such as conditionality, transfer size, and the specific identity of the program beneficiary within households) is limited. Third, evidence on final outcomes, such as learning, labor market outcomes, and HIV risk is lacking. Finally, long term evaluations of cash transfer programs are rare - mainly because the control groups in these evaluations are treated after a short period of time.The baseline data collection was administered from September 2007 to January 2008. The research targeted girls and young women, between the ages of 13 and 22, who were never married. Overall, 3,810 girls and young women were surveyed in the first round. Enumeration Areas (EAs) in the study district of Zomba were selected from the universe of EAs produced by the National Statistics Office of Malawi from the 1998 Census. 176 enumeration areas were randomly sampled out of a total of 550 EAs using three strata: urban areas, rural areas near Zomba Town, and rural areas far from Zomba Town. The follow-up survey (Round 2) was carried out from October 2008 to February 2009. The third round was conducted between March and September 2010, after Malawi Conditional Cash Transfer Program was completed. The fourth round took place in 2012-2013. The fifth round is planned for 2017. The data collection effort includes household surveys, individual quantitative and qualitative interviews, academic assessments, Voluntary Counseling and Testing, school surveys, market surveys, community surveys, and health facility assessments.The datasets from the third round of the impact evaluation are documented here.

学业、收入与健康风险（Schooling Income and Health Risk, SIHR）项目是一项针对马拉维年轻女性的有条件与无条件现金转移支付干预措施的随机对照评估，该项目向在读女学生和近期辍学者提供以学费补贴和现金转账形式的激励，以帮助其留校就读或重返校园。该项目名为松巴现金转移支付项目（Zomba Cash Transfer Program, ZCTP），于2008至2009年间在马拉维松巴地区实施。激励措施包括以良好到校出勤率为条件的每月平均10美元补贴，以及直接代缴中等教育学杂费。

SIHR项目的设计初衷正是为解答当前现金转移支付项目领域中数个尚无充分实证支撑的关键问题：其一，目前此类项目影响效应的相关研究数据几乎全部来自拉丁美洲地区，该区域的收入水平远高于撒哈拉以南非洲多数贫困国家，且制度治理能力也显著更强；其二，当前缺乏足够的实证依据来科学遴选项目设计参数，例如受助条件、补贴额度以及家庭内部的具体受益对象界定；其三，现有研究尚未覆盖项目最终成效的相关实证，包括学业表现、劳动力市场表现以及艾滋病病毒（HIV）感染风险等维度；其四，现金转移支付项目的长期评估极为罕见，主要原因在于此类评估中的对照组往往会在较短周期后接受项目干预。

项目基线数据采集工作于2007年9月至2008年1月间开展。本次研究的研究对象为13至22岁之间的未婚女性与青年女性，首轮调查共完成3810名女性及青年女性的访谈。研究团队从马拉维国家统计局基于1998年人口普查生成的松巴地区普查区（Enumeration Areas, EAs）名录中抽取研究样本，按照城区、松巴镇近郊农村以及松巴镇远郊农村三个分层，从总计550个普查区中随机抽取176个作为研究单元。

第二轮追踪调查于2008年10月至2009年2月间开展，第三轮调查于马拉维有条件现金转移支付项目结束后的2010年3月至9月间实施，第四轮调查于2012至2013年间完成，第五轮调查原计划于2017年开展。本次数据采集涵盖家庭问卷调研、个体定量与定性访谈、学业能力测评、自愿咨询与检测（Voluntary Counseling and Testing, VCT）、学校调研、市场调研、社区调研以及医疗卫生机构评估等多个维度。本页面已对本次影响评估第三轮调研的数据集进行了归档说明。