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Living Standards Measurement Study

Living Standards Measurement Study. Kinnon Scott June, 2003 DECRG- World Bank. Living Standard Measurement Study. (i) Research program originally Household surveys with community and price data and facility data Multi-topic- focus on determinants

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Living Standards Measurement Study

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  1. Living Standards Measurement Study Kinnon Scott June, 2003 DECRG- World Bank

  2. Living Standard Measurement Study • (i) Research program originally • Household surveys with community and • price data and facility data • Multi-topic- focus on determinants • Robust money-metric measure of welfare • (MDG 1)

  3. Living Standard Measurement Study • (ii) Consolidation • Variety of contexts, countries • Validation of methodology • Analytic techniques

  4. Living Standard Measurement Study • (iii) Decentralization • Capacity building • Tools • Dissemination

  5. LSMS Surveys • Ever more important source of information • Poverty Reduction Strategies • Millennium Development Goals

  6. Halve income poverty Halve hunger LSMS: Data for the MDGs MDG 1: Eradicate extreme poverty &hunger Proportion of population < $1 (PPP) a day Poverty gap ratio Share of poorest quintile in national consumption Prevalence of under-weight children under 5 yrs of age % of population below minimum dietary energy consumption     

  7. i. Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger ii. Achieve universal primary education Promote gender equality Reduce child mortality Improve maternal health Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria Ensure environmental sustainability Halve income poverty Halve hunger Universal primary education Gender equality in education 2/3 ↓in child mortality 3/4 ↓in maternal mortality ratio Halt spread of AIDS Halt incidence of Malaria Integrate sustainable dev. Halve pop. w/out safe water Providing Data for the MDGs          

  8. New Initiatives for LSMS • Focus on improvements, meeting new needs • Several projects to do this

  9. Comparative Living Standards Project (CLSP) • Extension of activities to facilitate, increase data use • Document and archive the 60+ LSMS survey data bases • Improvements in data access policies/agreements • Provide data and documentation to researchers (data set, Basic Information Document, Questionnaire, Additional Information) • All in electronic format (and hardcopy) • In-country activities (collaboration,training)

  10. Two key problems in further dissemination/use of data • 1. No easy way to determine the content of all the surveys

  11. CLSP: Meta Data of LSMS Surveys • Create web-based tool containing meta data describing the contents of existing LSMS data sets • Searchable Data Base • By topic • By country • By year • Update continually

  12. CLSP--Problem 2: • Many potential users do not have skills to analyze micro-data • Many potential users do not have time to analyze multiple data bases • Under-utilization of the data

  13. CLSP: Comparative Data Base • Create a database of a subset of variables/indicators from LSMS Surveys • Focus on comparability across countries, documenting carefully • Allow ‘on-the-fly’ tables/statistics/regressions within and among countries • Respecting sampling (weights, representat.) • Attention to welfare measures

  14. LSMS Surveys: New Initiatives • Public goods nature of data • New demands • Short- medium term: • (i) Expand knowledge • (ii) Expand dissemination

  15. LSMS: New Initiatives • (i) Improve Knowledge • -test suggested modules • -carry out experiments- accuracy, efficiency, • quality • -new concepts- feasibility, usefulness • - new technologies • All leading to increased quality of data- for MDGs, for PRSPs, for sectoral issues

  16. LSMS- New Initiatives • Expand dissemination • -work with other organizations involved in • household surveys • -work with statistical agencies to implement • experiments and carry out analysis • - conferences on innovations in survey • methodology, analysis of micro-data

  17. Partnerships • Data Users and Data Producers • International organizations and national organizations • Regional organizations • NSOs, line ministries, research groups

  18. Selected Bibilography • Deaton, Angus and Salman Zaidi,. 2002. “Guidelines for Constructing Consumption Aggregates for Welfare Analysis.” LSMS Working Paper No. 135, World Bank, Development Economics Research Group Department, Washington, D.C. • Grosh, Margaret and Paul Glewwe (2000). Designing Household Survey Questionnaires for Developing Countries: Lessons fro 15 years of the Living Standards Measurement Study. World Bank, Washington, D.C. • Martin Ravallion, “Poverty Comparisons: a Guide to Concepts and Methods”, LSMS Working Paper No. 88.

  19. Selected Bibilography • Grosh, Margaret and Juan Munoz, “ A Manual for Planning and Implementing the Living Standards Measurement Study Surveys” LSMS Working Paper, No. 126. • World Bank (2000). “Nicaragua: Ex-Post Impact Evaluation of the Emergency Social Investment Fund (FISE)”, Report No. 20400-NI, Washington D.C. • LSMS Web Site: http:/www.worldbank.org/lsms • Questions or comments? Write us at • LSMS@worldbank.org

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