This section collects quite aggregated and general information on gifts received and gifts made by the household over the past 12 months. The gifts received and given are disaggregated according to type: cash, food, and other in-kind.
The purpose of this section is to capture any income that a household may have received or given in form of a gift: that was not in return of goods or services offered by member(s) of the household to the source of the gift. By definition a transfer is a transaction in which an individual/household/institution provides good/service/asset to another individual/household/institution without receiving from the latter any good/service/asset in return as counterpart.
The transfer (gift) may be in cash or in Kind. Where in-cash transfer means assistance that come in form of currency or transferable deposits (e.g. cheque, money orders etc) while in-kind transfer means goods or service assistance that is not in form of cash: transfer of ownership of goods/assets or supply of services for free (e.g. free medical check up, free provision of labour etc).
Goods are physical objects for which a demand exists, over which ownership rights can be established and whose ownership can be transferred.
Services are outputs produced to order and typically result to changes in the conditions of the consuming unit. E.g. Cleaning, medical, legal services etc
Self-help groups are entities typically established by people with the intentions of uplifting their living standards by pooling resources together. Examples of self-help groups is merry-go-round, social welfare etc
Cases: | 12924 |
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