Household Water Security Survey Data for Lagos, Nigeria

Adrian Healy's dataset from 2024 includes three surveys on urban water security in Lagos, Nigeria. The primary quantitative survey contains 512 anonymized household interviews conducted via CATI in January 2024. It is complemented by a smaller, non-representative survey of 32 borehole owners from November 2023 and a set of qualitative interviews.

Use Cases

• Analyzing household strategies for securing water based on survey responses about water use practices.
• Modeling perceptions of water supply conditions based on qualitative and quantitative survey data.
• Studying the relationship between socio-economic status and borehole ownership based on self-reported rankings.
• Characterizing groundwater conditions and domestic borehole usage in an urban setting.

Strengths

• Primary quantitative survey includes 512 household interviews, providing a substantive sample.
• Data collection used quota sampling for representation across gender, age, and socio-economic segments.
• All data was anonymized at source, enhancing privacy compliance.
• Dataset is small (352.4 KB), facilitating quick download and initial exploration.

Limitations

• Row counts for the qualitative interview data are unknown, limiting assessment of its scope.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• The borehole owner survey of 32 responses is explicitly non-representative and self-selecting.

Provenance

Source

Adrian Healy, part of an academic research project on precarious water in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Collection Method

Mixed methods: a CATI household survey administered by IPSOS, a non-representative online survey via Google Forms/WhatsApp, and qualitative interviews.

Time Range

Primary survey conducted in January 2024; borehole survey in November 2023.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-20 13:25:09; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Lagos, Nigeria.