Beyond the COVID-19 pandemic, the world has experienced multiple global crises in the last few years. As countries adapt to a new normal, multi-topic household surveys should also be adapted to account...
The World Bank is an international leader in the methodology and implementation of household surveys, working in close partnership with national statistics offices (NSOs) around the world. This guidebook...
This guidebook provides survey practitioners with the requisite tools and technical support to successfully integrate the new energy access questions into existing national household surveys. It also provides...
This Guidebook focuses on agricultural labor related to crop production and post-harvest activities on household farms. Future research will explore other areas of household farming labor, including livestock...
This volume is organized to assess innovations in agricultural survey design, provide practical recommendations on the design and tradeoffs inherent in agricultural survey modules, and lastly to provide...
Labor statistics provide essential information for macroeconomic planning and policy formulation on employment creation, vocational training, income generation, and poverty reduction. A clear understanding...
The Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has presented a major challenge for household survey programs. In order to prevent the spread of the virus, governments across the world have implemented...
This guidebook is a consolidation of field-tested best practices to implement, improve, and modernize nationally representative multi-topic household surveys for monitoring welfare and poverty. Offered...
An estimated one billion people worldwide live with disabilities. Of the world’s poorest people, one in five live with disabilities, in conditions where they lack material resources as well as opportunities...
Climate change and food security are two of the most pressing challenges facing the global community today. Improving smallholder agricultural systems is a key response to both. In short,climate change...
Rising food prices, rapid urbanization, robust economic growth, and widening inequality over the past decade have fundamentally transformed the environment in which agriculture operates in developing countries...
Food constitutes a key component of a number of fundamental welfare dimensions, such as food security, nutrition, health, and poverty. It makes up the largest share of total household expenditure in low-income...
Private household expenditure on education forms a critical component of education expenditure in many developing countries. However, information on household education expenditure in these countries is...
Soil is a key input in agricultural production and analysis. This guidebook offers practical guidance for integrating spectral soil analysis into household survey operations, particularly in low-income...
Measuring poverty often depends on measuring food that is both purchased and harvested from the field. In low- and middle-income countries especially, food consumption still constitutes the largest share...
Forests play important provisioning and supporting roles in the livelihoods of rural households and many of those who live in extreme poverty are to some degree reliant on forests for their livelihood...
This guidebook presents a livestock module template for inclusion in multi-topic and agricultural household surveys in low- and middle-income countries. Its aim is to provide decision makers and survey...
Land area measurement is the cornerstone of agricultural statistics, economics, and policy analysis in developed and developing countries alike. With over seventy percent of the developing world’s poor...
Violent conflict has significant effects on the welfare, resilience and behaviour of individuals, households and communities. These impacts deserve close study at the micro-level, both as a new field of...
Fishing is the most important food production activity not currently captured in most integrated household surveys. Fish and other aquatic animals contribute to the food security of citizens of developing...