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title: "Household Decision Making"
slug: "household-decision-making"
updated: 2025-07-17T12:34:02Z
published: 2025-07-17T12:34:02Z
canonical: "vamresources.manuals.wfp.org/household-decision-making"
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> ## Documentation Index
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# Household Decision Making

**Indicator:**

C.3.1. Proportion of households where women, men, or both women and men make decisions on the use of food / cash / vouchers, disaggregated by transfer modality

**Definition:**

*Proportion*: The quantitative share of households (%)

*Decisions on the use of*: The choices made as to how a household will utilise the received food, cash and/or voucher(s); how the cash will be used, what will be redeemed with the vouchers and whether food will be consumed, sold, exchanged or distributed among household members, and by whom

*Food / Cash / Vouchers*: Household entitlements (not individual rations) provided by WFP

Transfer modality: food, cash, voucher

**Applicability:**

Indicator C.3.1 applies to all households that receive food assistance – in-kind, cash, voucher – from WFP (directly or indirectly) and have more than one adult. The indicator applies also when the diverse adults in the household are not spouses.

The indicator is not applicable to activities where food assistance is:

a) provided to individuals, groups or entities, other than the household, such as meals provided at schools or health clinics; and

b) in a form other than in-kind, cash and voucher, such as capacity-building.

Indicator C.3.1 does not apply to single-headed households; to those where there is only one adult decision-maker. Where the adult (or adults) in a household are all women, or all men, measuring the sharing of decision-making by women and men is not valid.

**Indicator calculation:**

Scripts in [R, STATA and SPSS](https://github.com/WFP-VAM/RAMResourcesScripts/tree/main/Indicators/Gender-CRF-C31) and [sample data](https://github.com/WFP-VAM/RAMResourcesScripts/blob/main/Static/Gender_CRF_C31_Sample_Survey.csv) are available on [github](https://github.com/WFP-VAM/RAMResourcesScripts/) for calculating this indicator.

**For more information:**

Please contact [hq.ramm@wfp.org](mailto:hq.ramm@wfp.org)