Household survey form template
Put household rosters together quickly and efficiently to set your team up for success with this workflow template.
This standardized but customizable template will let you identify the number of members per household, and gather essential like number of dependents and the gender, education, and employment of those members.
Get the ability to manage data collectors and assign forms to them when you download this workflow for more efficient data collection.
What's in this household survey form template
This template was designed by SurveyCTO’s expert partners at the World Bank’s Development Impact Group. It includes:
- A pre-built, widely-applicable form to gather data on household members in order to build a robust roster of data on household members as a foundation for a wide variety of research projects
- Built-in enumerator functionality that links data collectors to their forms by storing them in an attached dataset
- Household survey questionnaire best practices, like requiring informed consent in order to proceed, and tracking the location of households (in this case, by data collectors)
Use this template in monitoring & evaluation projects, for the basis of a housing census, and to conduct household surveys to determine development program eligibility for household members.
What you need in a household survey questionnaire
Household surveys are foundational to research projects that range from taking a census to determining program eligibility to monitoring, evaluation, accountability, and learning for programs.
Key elements to a high-quality household survey are best supplied by a solid household roster, like the one you can create using this template. They include:
Gathering accurate data on number of people and their ages and genders
Confirming consent to be surveyed and included in the roster from all parties
Making sure your questions are clear, do not introduce bias or survey error, and can be well understood by respondents
- The ability to provide accessible lists of households to be interviewed for data collectors
- The ability to link questionnaires back to their data collectors
This workflow template can be deployed in a few simple clicks and provides you with everything you need to design a strong household survey to create the household rosters you need for your research project.
This adaptable template is easily edited so you can change, remove, or add questions, and customize with our many options for engaging, understandable surveys.
Here's how SurveyCTO's household survey form template can help you:
So many research projects depend on household surveys.
This household survey template was created to help you gather foundational data for future surveys. It is ready to go as-is, but you can also edit it to incorporate SurveyCTO’s features for getting high-quality data. This means:
- The sky is the limit with customization! Capture images in the field or use them to make questions clearer. Add skip logic and constraints to ensure that respondents only answer questions that are logical for them. Limit response options based on previous responses with choice filters. For more options, explore our field plug-in catalog
- Protect people and reputations with best-in-class data security features like end-to-end encryption
- Control who can access what data with customizable user roles
- Use automated quality checks or build a review & correction workflow to manage data quality in the field
- Stream your data to platforms you already use for visualization and reporting, like Google Sheets, PowerBI, and more
