How do floods affect people, especially the poorer population, living in flood-prone areas? What attracts them to settle in these areas and how do they cope with the impacts of floods?
When University of Arizona political economy professor, William Mishler needed Kiribati census and household income data for a project he was working on with Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) he
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Reliable data is a critical tool in the fight against extreme poverty. Household surveys, as the primary source of such data, play a fundamental role in understanding the welfare of the world’s poor and monitoring progress towards the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals.
LSMS-supported high-frequency phone surveys on COVID-19: new harmonized datafiles and variables available
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As part of a global effort by the World Bank, the Living Standards Measurement Study (LSMS) program has been supporting High-Frequency Phone Surveys on COVID-19 in Ethiopia, Malawi, Nigeria, Tanzania and Uganda to track responses to and socio-economic impacts of COVID-19. The phone surveys leverage the ongoing World Bank Living Standards Measurement Study – Integrated Surveys on Agriculture (LSMS-ISA) initiative and its infrastructure. Surveys are being conducted monthly with a national sample of households that had been interviewed during the latest round of the LSMS-ISA-supported national longitudinal household survey.