Microfinance programs and domestic violence in northern Cameroon; the case of the Familial Rural Income Improvement Program

Review of Economics of the Household - The aim of this paper is to examine the relationship between female participation to the familial rural income improvement program (PARFAR) and domestic...     

Moving beyond the household: Innovations in data collection on kinship

Across settings, it has been shown that the co-residential household is an insufficient measure of family structure and support. However, it continues to be the primary means of population data collection. To address this problem, we developed a new instrument, the Kinship Support Tree (KST), to collect kinship structure and support data on co-residential and non-residential kin and tested it on a sample of 462 single mothers and their children in a slum community in Nairobi, Kenya. This instrument is unique in four important ways: (1) it is not limited to the co-residential household; (2) it distinguishes potential from functional kin; (3) it incorporates multiple geospatial measures; and (4) it collects data on kin relationships specifically for children. In this paper, we describe the KST instrument, assess the data collected in comparison to data from household rosters, and consider the challenges and feasibility of administration of the KST.