The RHoMIS survey
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The RHoMIS survey contains a number of core modules on farming practice, livelihoods, and food security. There are 30 optional bolt-on modules covering a wide range of topics. The core survey typically takes 45 minutes to complete.
The survey is adapted to suit the local context in each project with language translation and modifications of units, crops, and livestock. The questionnaire is available in nine languages: Arabic, English, French, Hindi, Khmer, Kiswahili, Kinyarwandan, Spanish, and Vietnamese. It is conducted on Android mobile devices. RHoMIS is available to use in research projects, development programs, and for collection of official statistics. The standardised core and bolt-on modules allow rapid data processing and visualisation. The survey, web infrastructure, and analysis code are all built from open source software, and so can be further developed by interested parties. We offer two routes for users of RHoMIS: |
The RHoMIS tool is available for use by researchers and organisations working with rural households. |
Option 1: Supported |
Option 2: DIY |
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The RHoMIS team charge for their support time and expertise. Our team have worked on over 70 survey implementations and are available to support the entire process. The RHoMIS team will work with you on the development of the questionnaire, guiding the localisation and modification of each application. We can advise on implementation details and are available to travel and train your teams of enumerators and supervisors.
Supported users have access to our secure webserver for private data storage and ease of data export. With this option we will also begin to process the data and, using our established analysis scripts we can provide a first-stage of analysis. This happens very quickly, with initial results available within one to two weeks after the interviews are complete. Finally, the Supported option ensures that the data gathered is in the same format as other RHoMIS data, so that data can be used for comparison purposes. Please contact us to explore this route further. |
As a publicly-funded open-source tool, RHoMIS is freely available for anyone to use. We call this the DIY (do-it-yourself) route.
Technical skills required are XLS Form (ODK) for questionnaire design, R language to adapt our analysis scripts, and other data analysis skills to investigate further issues in the survey data and indicators. We provide a manual with guidance on how to use the tool, how to access the files, and the required software and technology for using RHoMIS. However, our staff team are not available to support DIY users. We welcome DIY users. Click on the link below to download the DIY files. |
