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England, Senegal, Burkina Faso, France, Uganda

Individual

Key Informant Interviews (approx. n = 30 per country). Identifying Key Informants all along the chain of data production (from survey designers and commissioners, to interviewers, to statisticians, to policy makers and academics) we interviewed people about their roles in the collection and/or use of household survey data: the sorts of data sets that they used, the way in which these data sets were helpful or not, the way in which these data sets could be used and any difficulties and challenges that respondents had using these datasets. Discussions particularly focussed on the way in which the ‘household’ is defined and used in these surveys/census and the extent to which survey households are able to capture and represent intergenerational relationships. We spoke to people in government ministries, local and national statistics offices, universities, commercial research organisations and NGOs and charities. All interviews were anonymised, transcribed verbatim and entered into an NVivo database. The UK and Burkina transcripts will be available on the ESRC Data Archive in 2013.) Household Interview Case Studies – Qualitative interviews with households in a number of settings about their household (how they subjectively understood this), their relationships of care/support across the generations and inter- and intra- exchanges of care. With:a. 12 households in Senegal, Uganda and Burkina Faso in each of 4 sites (a rural village, a small town, an established district area of the capital city and a poor unplanned area of the capital). N=48/countryb. 8 households in UK and France in each of 4 sites (a rural site, a suburban site, Ugandan diaspora in UK/Malian, Burkinabe, Senegalese diaspora in France, non-diasporic households living in the city). N= 32/countryWe adapted household interview schedules commonly used in surveys in order to record the information on household structure by hand. Data from grids was then anonymised, input into Excel, and coded inductively using Nvivo. The data from the UK and Burkina Faso household interviews will be available on the UK Data Archive in 2013.