Between July and August 2023, Venezuelan civil society organizations produced the third edition of the community diagnostics, in the form of a household survey applied in 20 of Venezuela’s 24 states.
The survey is jointly conducted by the organizations on the HumVenezuela platform since 2021 and provides primary data on the impacts of the Complex Humanitarian Emergency (CHE) on households’ access to decent economic status, food, health care, basic education, water, sanitation and hygiene, and other basic services. It also includes data on risks and problems faced by households in their community environments and the intention to migrate.
These data are used in measurements of the scale, severity, intensity and depth of the CHE, crossed with other available secondary data and compared with those made in previous years to observe their evolution and trends.
In this edition, the organizations surveyed a total of 11,016 households in 195 municipalities in the states of Amazonas, Anzoategui, Apure, Aragua, Bolivar, Carabobo, Capital District, Falcon, Guarico, La Guaira, Lara, Merida, Miranda, Monagas, Nueva Esparta, Sucre, Tachira, Trujillo, Yaracuy and Zulia, where 92% of the Venezuelan population resides.
The collection was based on statistical sampling with a 95% confidence margin and 0.87% error. The sample was expanded by 66% as compared to past editions: the first, in June 2021, with 4,489 households surveyed in 125 municipalities in 16 states, and the second, in March 2022, in which 6,641 households were surveyed in 145 municipalities in 19 states.
39% of the households surveyed in this edition live in capital cities, 19.3% in medium-sized cities, 23.6% in small cities, 16.3% in rural areas and 0.7% in indigenous settlements. Among the persons interviewed from each household to complete the survey, 62% were women and 38% men. Among the members of the households on which data were collected, 54.9% were women and 45.1% were men.
