Despite social estrangement measures that have severely limited the use of face-to-face interviews, LSMS, funded through the United States Agency for International Development and in collaboration with the World Bank’s Global Poverty and Equity Practice (GP), provides monetary and technical assistance for high-frequency surveys in Burkina Faso , Ethiopia, Malawi, Mali, Nigeria and Uganda to monitor the responses and socio-economic effects of COVID-19. An LSMS-backed survey is expected to be introduced in Tanzania in November 2020, in collaboration with the World Bank’s National Bureau of Statistics and the GP Poverty and Equity.
Activities in Ethiopia, Malawi, Nigeria, Tanzania and Uganda
In these five countries, telephone surveys are part of the World Bank’s ongoing initiative to measure living criteria: Integrated Agricultural Surveys (LSMS-ISA) and its infrastructure.
In the country, the telephone survey aims to conduct monthly telephone interviews, over a period of 12 months, with a national pattern of families surveyed in the most recent circular of the National Longitudinal Household Survey supported through LSMS-ISA. In the country, the telephone survey company is the respective National Bureau of Statistics (NSO), with the exception of Ethiopia, where the World Bank has hired a personal company with the permission of the Central Statistical Agency.
Draft proposal describing our telephone survey activities in LSMS-ISA countries can be viewed HERE. This style is based on a decade of LSMS-ISA investment in the ability of national statistical offices to design and conduct longitudinal family surveys. By allowing national spouse statistical offices to respond to desires for emergency knowledge by reorienting existing LSMS-ISA longitudinal surveys, creating new parallel knowledge collection systems, sustainable skill is promoted and can be replicated seamlessly on a large scale in other geographic areas.
Activities in Burkina Faso and Mali
Each telephone survey in Burkina Faso and Mali aims to conduct monthly telephone interviews, over a period of 12 months, with a national pattern of families interviewed in the 2018/19 cycle of the cross-sectional survey conducted as a component of West Africa Regional Programme for Harmonization and Modernization of the Living Situations Survey. In all countries, the telephone survey company is the NSO.
In LSMS-ISA, as well as in Burkina Faso and Mali, technical assistance for telephone surveying is provided through a team of experts from LSMS and the World Bank’s Poverty and Equity GP.
LSMS-edited telephone surveys are a component of the largest organization of high-frequency telephone surveys conducted through the World Bank, joining other countries in sub-Saharan Africa, the Middle East and North Africa, South Asia and East Asia and the Pacific. The LSMS team works heavily with the World Bank’s global poverty and equity practice for this global effort.
At the country level, beyond the above-mentioned operations in Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Malawi, Mali, Nigeria, Tanzania and Uganda, the LSMS team provides specialized technical assistance for surveys in Gambia, Guinea, Mauritania, Niger and Senegal.
Globally, the LSMS team has contributed to the progression of a set of harmonized tools and equipment that can be seamlessly tracked across as many countries and executors as can be imagined with few constant costs in advance. These are in the “Resources” segment below.
For more resources, the COVID-19 study site of the DEC World Bank for real-time knowledge, statistical signals and a COVID-19 knowledge board.
During the July 2020 to June 2021 era, these resources will be complemented by additional features of the World Bank’s TISC research response software and R, Python and Stata-based teams, led through LSMS, that facilitate control of ITAO surveys: those teams. it will also be made public.
In addition to generating rapid reports for the telephone survey cycle, LSMS has established several execution teams focused on the knowledge studies of telephone surveys and the pre-COVID-19 LSMS-ISA to produce cross-border steering notes and execution documents. The existing list of study topics includes: (i) survey methodology, (ii) agriculture and food security, (ii) knowledge, behaviours and livelihoods, (iv) education, (v) paintings and employment, and (vi) gender. The products of the special team will be publicly disclosed.
Available resources, knowledge and effects are presented across the country. The results of the following rounds will be added as soon as they become available.
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