A Guide To Living Standards Measurement Study Surveys And Their Data Sets

Author : Margaret E. Grosh,Paul Glewwe
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1995-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0821333755

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A Guide to Living Standards Measurement Study Surveys and Their Data Sets by Margaret E. Grosh,Paul Glewwe Pdf

World Bank Discussion Paper No. 302. Presents an alternative way of financing development in Sub-Saharan Africa in order to address the shortcomings of past investment lending. This study discusses sector investment programs (SIPs) as an alternative way of financing development in Sub-Saharan Africa in order to address the shortcomings of past investment lending in the region. The report examines the nature and features of SIPs by drawing on the limited experience with such operations in a number of coutries to date, including Bangladesh, Mozambique, Pakistan, Tanzania, and Zambia. A SIP is distinguished by its comprehensive sector coverage, by close coordination among all parties, including stakholders and donors, and by the requirement that it be formulated under local ownership and management

Author : Juan Munoz
Publisher : World Bank
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1998-03-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0821341553

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A Manual for Planning and Implementing the Living Standards Measurement Study Survey by Juan Munoz Pdf

This manual explains the planning process, technical procedures, and standards used in Living Standards Measurement Study (LSMS) household surveys. Topics covered include the technical aspects of questionnaire formatting and testing, ways of implementing a sample design, budgeting, and what fieldwork and data management procedures have been successful. A brief section describes how to assess local statistical capacity.

Author : Margaret E. Grosh,Juan Muñoz
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015041040158

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A Manual for Planning and Implementing the Living Standards Measurement Study Survey by Margaret E. Grosh,Juan Muñoz Pdf

This manual explains the planning process, technical procedures, and standards used in Living Standard Measurement Study (LSMS) household surveys, including what these procedures entail, why they are used, and how they can be implemented. It provides a factual description of different procedures and standards as well as their purpose and an explanation of their distinctions. The report offers explicit instructions, along with examples of ways LSMS survey procedures have been implemented in different countries. Although the lessons presented here are derived from LSMS surveys, many of them are applicable to surveys in general, and especially to those that are complex or especially concerned with quality control. Topics covered in this manual include technical aspects of questionnaire formatting and testing, methods of implementing sample design, and fieldwork and data management procedures that have been successful. The report sketches ideas about which directions to pursue in analyzing data, presents a brief description of how to assess local statistical capacity, and includes sample work plans and budgets to give surveyors estimates of how long each process will take.

Author : Raylynn Oliver
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1997-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0821339346

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Model Living Standards Measurement Study Survey Questionnaire for the Countries of the Former Soviet Union by Raylynn Oliver Pdf

Living Standards Measurement Survey Working Paper No. 130.This document presents a set of Living Standards Measurement Study (LSMS) questionnaires that have been developed for use in the Russian-speaking countries of the former Soviet Union. The questionnaires are available in English and Russian, as well as in an electronic format. The document describes in detail how to modify the questionnaires for use in any specific country. The author guides the questionnaire writer through the modification process, illustrating the important aspects of LSMS surveys, the translation and field-testing procedures, and a section-by-section description of the types of modification that are likely to be required to suit particular goals and circumstances.Also available in Russian : (ISBN 0-8213-3935-4) / Stock No. 13935

Author : Margaret E. Grosh,Paul Glewwe
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 1284 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Developing countries
ISBN : 0195215958

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Designing Household Survey Questionnaires for Developing Countries by Margaret E. Grosh,Paul Glewwe Pdf

Multitopic household surveys have become an indispensable instrument for understanding development and are fundamental to serious microeconomic analysis. They are used to test behavioural theories; to assess public interventions and to locate the poor. Developing countries, without adequate household survey data are forced to make policy decisions in an environment with many blind spots, where crucial information can be seen only dimly or not at all. The value of a household survey, though, ultimately depends on its design and execution. These volumes provides advice on how to design multitopic surveys - single surveys collecting data on many different topics. The surveys treated in this book include: household size and composition, education, health, anthropometry, fertility, income and consumption, employment, agricultural production, household enterprises, transfers and nonlabor income, savings and credit, housing , the environment, migration, and time use.

Author : Paul Glewwe
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 41 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Developing countries
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Improving Data on Poverty in the Third World by Paul Glewwe Pdf

This paper is an account of the World Bank's effort to collect household-level data on poverty in developing countries and what that data says about the effects of government policies on living conditions of the poor. The main objective of the Living Standards Measurement Study (LSMS) surveys is to provide household-level data for evaluating the population's living conditions. This paper gives a history of LSMS and shows general trends that emerged in studies for which LSMS data are available: (a) most of the poor are in rural areas; (b) most of the poor are in households in which the head works in agriculture; and (c) the heads of poor households have low levels of education. Selected results of studies on the persistence of poverty, the effects on the poor, structural adjustment, food stamps and food subsidies, and raising user fees for health care and education are presented.

Author : Angus Deaton
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0801852544

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The Analysis of Household Surveys by Angus Deaton Pdf

Using data from several countries, including Cote d'Ivoire, India, Pakistan, Taiwan, and Thailand, this book analyzes household survey data from developing countries and illustrates how such data can be used to cast light on a range of short-term and long-term policy issues.

Author : Samia Amin,Jishnu Das,Markus Goldstein
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2007-12-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 082137186X

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Are You Being Served? by Samia Amin,Jishnu Das,Markus Goldstein Pdf

This publication presents tools and techniques for measuring service delivery in health and education and people's experiences from the field in deploying these methods. It begins by providing an introduction to the different methodological tools available for evaluating the performance of the health and education sectors. Country specific experiences are then explored to highlight lessons on the challenges, advantages and disadvantages of using different techniques to measure quality in a variety of different contexts and of using the resulting data to affect change. This book is a valuable resource for those who seek to enhance capacity for the effective measurement of service delivery in order to improve accountability and governance and enhance the quality of service delivery in developing countries.

Author : Adam Wagstaff,Owen O'Donnell,Eddy van Doorslaer,Magnus Lindelow
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2007-11-02
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0821369342

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Analyzing Health Equity Using Household Survey Data by Adam Wagstaff,Owen O'Donnell,Eddy van Doorslaer,Magnus Lindelow Pdf

Have gaps in health outcomes between the poor and better off grown? Are they larger in one country than another? Are health sector subsidies more equally distributed in some countries than others? Are health care payments more progressive in one health care financing system than another? What are catastrophic payments and how can they be measured? How far do health care payments impoverish households? Answering questions such as these requires quantitative analysis. This in turn depends on a clear understanding of how to measure key variables in the analysis, such as health outcomes, health expenditures, need, and living standards. It also requires set quantitative methods for measuring inequality and inequity, progressivity, catastrophic expenditures, poverty impact, and so on. This book provides an overview of the key issues that arise in the measurement of health variables and living standards, outlines and explains essential tools and methods for distributional analysis, and, using worked examples, shows how these tools and methods can be applied in the health sector. The book seeks to provide the reader with both a solid grasp of the principles underpinning distributional analysis, while at the same time offering hands-on guidance on how to move from principles to practice.

Author : David Dollar,Paul Glewwe,Jennie Ilene Litvack
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1998-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0821341626

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Household Welfare and Vietnam's Transition by David Dollar,Paul Glewwe,Jennie Ilene Litvack Pdf

Vietnam's rapid growth has transformed the country, reducing poverty from about 75 percent of the population to about 50 percent. At the same time, its transition from a planned to a market economy has created new challenges for public policy in a wide range of areas. This volume explores issues such as which macroeconomic and structural reforms led to growth, what effect reform has had on the household economy, and how the transition has affected education, health, fertility, and child nutrition. It provides an analysis of economic and social policies and shows how micro-level data can be used to analyze the likely effect of different government expenditures and activities. It also focuses on the effect different policies have on the poor and challenges stereotypes about poverty-focused expenditures.

Author : Meena Acharya
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : History
ISBN : UCAL:$C85350

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Time Use Data and the Living Standards Measurement Study by Meena Acharya Pdf

Author : Ralph Würthwein
Publisher : Duncker & Humblot
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2003-11-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 3428513282

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Measuring the Burden of Disease and Returns to Education in Rural West Africa by Ralph Würthwein Pdf

The success of health economics and its guidance for health policy heavily rests on the availability of reliable empirical evidence on the demographic, economic, and epidemiological environment, on behavioral relationships, and on the impact of policy interventions. For Sub-Saharan Africa, especially the epidemiological situation is unclear, since comprehensive systems of mortality and health statistics are often absent.The economic analysis of health naturally places a special focus on the interrelation between health and economic well-being: the overall disease burden decreases when a country grows richer, and the share of communicable diseases decreases in the process of economic development, whereas the share of non-communicable diseases increases. In those parts of Sub-Saharan Africa that are mainly dominated by traditional subsistence farming, however, it is difficult to examine questions of income and health for simple fundamental reasons. A vital prerequisite for an empirical investigation is the thorough and accurate measurement of income. Yet, both the measurement of the burden of disease and the measurement of income are research tasks that are far from being fulfilled for Sub-Saharan Africa. A further issue that is related with economic well-being and health is education. For poor rural regions predominated by traditional subsistence farming it is far from clear whether investments in human capital are worthwhile.The present study addesses this research gap by producing empirical evidence on the measurement of the burden of disease, the structure of income, and returns to education in rural West Africa. Concretely it deals with the collection and analysis of mortality, morbidity, and socio-economic data in the Nouna Health District in the North-West of Burkina Faso. The study was accepted as a doctoral thesis at the University of Heidelberg. Earlier versions of some of its chapters have been published as working papers or in international journals.

Author : Dominique Marie-Annick Haughton
Publisher : Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9812300325

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Health and Wealth in Vietnam by Dominique Marie-Annick Haughton Pdf

How do Vietnamese households live and work? This book answers many of the most important questions, including: Who uses contraceptives? Which children get the most health care? Who are the poor, and why are they poor? Which families migrate? Why do so many rural workers change jobs? Where do households get credit? What drives rice production? The result of a unique collaboration between Vietnamese and international social scientists, the fourteen concise chapters paint a fascinating picture of household health and wealth. All are based on the Vietnam Living Standards Survey, the most accurate and complete source of data available. The use of statistical techniques in every chapter gives the book added coherence while providing depth and clarity to the analysis. A must for anyone with a serious interest in Vietnam, this highly readable book is also designed to serve as a reference work.

Author : Ama de-Graft Aikins,Charles Agyemang
Publisher : CABI
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2015-12-17
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781780643328

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Chronic Non-communicable Diseases in Low and Middle-income Countries by Ama de-Graft Aikins,Charles Agyemang Pdf

Low and middle income countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America bear a significant proportion of the global burden of chronic non-communicable diseases. This book synthesizes evidence across countries that share similar socio-economic, developmental and public health profiles, including rapid urbanization, globalization and poverty. Providing insights on successful and sustainable interventions and policies, it shows how to slow and reverse the rising burden of chronic diseases in resource-poor settings.

Author : Steven Howes,Jean Olson Lanjouw
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1997-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0821338625

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Poverty Comparisons and Household Survey Design by Steven Howes,Jean Olson Lanjouw Pdf

World Bank Discussion Paper No. 356. The World Bank has become the world's largest lender in the health, nutrition, and population (HNP) sectors, requiring the institution to seek ever greater evidence that its work is effective on the ground. This paper reviews the literature on the causes of observed changes in health and fertility levels, on the evaluation of policies, and on programs designed to accelerate these changes. It presents a framework that delineates the relationships between Bank activities in the HNP sectors, the characteristics of a health care system, household behavior, and changes in health outcomes. The paper also describes a strategy for assessing the development effectiveness of the Bank's work in these sectors. The underlying thesis is that changes in health policy and improved outcomes depend on the the demand for health services and on institutional incentives that drive health care system performance.