The Shock Exposure Index (SEI) measures the overall degree of shock and/or stressor exposure to context-specific shocks at the household level. By gathering data on a range of covariate and idiosyncratic shocks, it can support programme monitoring and learning by providing information on the frequency and severity of shocks experienced in-context especially for resilience programmes.
The SEI is adapted from the TANGO Method designed by USAID (2018) and is a subjective approach to measuring the impact of shocks and/or stressors collected through household surveys.
There are currently two-forms of the SEI available on the RAM IM Ecosystem: A long-form version based on the original TANGO Method (covering 18 shocks) and a short-form version endorsed by WFP (covering 6 context-specific shocks).
Please find below the resources that will help you in collecting, analysing and interpreting the SEI indicator:
The SEI methodological note containing all relevant information on the design, collection and analysis of the indicator.
The long form and short form SEI are available on WFP Survey Designer, to help simplify the authoring of forms in Excel. The XLS forms can be converted to ODK forms, a popular open-source data collection software, that allows you to author a form with complex functionality in a consistent way, across a number of web and mobile data collection platforms.
The SPSS code to calculate the SEI is available on GitHub – which hosts scripts in R, STATA and SPSS - that are already created for you.
For more information, please contact the Field Monitoring Unit (HQ.RAMFIELDMONITORING@WFP.ORG) in HQ RAM.