Integrated Household Panel Survey 2010-2013 (Short-Term Panel)
Malawi, 2013
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MWI_2010-2013_IHPS_v01_EN_M_v01_A_OCS
Integrated Household Panel Survey 2010-2013 (Short-Term Panel)
| Name | Country code |
|---|---|
| Malawi | MWI |
Living Standards Measurement Study [hh/lsms]
The 2013 Integrated Household Panel Survey (IHPS) was launched in April 2013. The survey provided a basic overview of the third Integrated Household Survey which had been implemented between the period of March 2010 and March 2011.
The Integrated Household Survey (IHS) is one of the primary instruments implemented by the Government of Malawi through the National Statistical Office roughly every 5 years to monitor and evaluate the changing conditions of Malawian households. The IHS data have, among other insights, provided benchmark poverty and vulnerability indicators to foster evidence-based policy formulation and monitor the progress of meeting the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) as well as the goals listed as part of the Malawi Growth and Development Strategy (MGDS).
The First Integrated Household Survey (IHS1) was implemented with technical assistance from the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and the World Bank (WB). The IHS1 was conducted in Malawi from November 1997 through October 1998 and provided for a broad set of applications on policy issues regarding households' behaviour and welfare, distribution of income, employment, health and education. The Second Integrated Household Survey was implemented with technical assistance from the World Bank in order to compare the current situation with the situation in 1997-98, and to collect more detailed information in specific areas. The IHS2 fieldwork took placed from March 2004 through February 2005. The Third Integrated Household Survey (IHS3) expanded on the agricultural content of the IHS2 and was implemented from March 2010 to March 2011 under the umbrella of the World Bank Living Standards Measurement Study - Integrated Surveys on Agriculture (LSMS-ISA) initiative, whose primary objective is to provide financial and technical support to governments in sub-Saharan Africa in the design and implementation of nationally-representative multi-topic panel household surveys with a strong focus on agriculture.
A sub-sample of IHS3 sample enumeration areas (EAs) (i.e. 204 EAs out of 768 EAs) was selected prior to the start of the IHS3 field work with the intention to
(i) to track and resurvey these households in 2013 in accordance with the IHS3 fieldwork timeline and as part of the Integrated Household Panel Survey (IHPS)
(ii) (ii) visit a total of 3,246 households in these EAs twice to reduce recall associated with different aspects of agricultural data collection.
Sample survey data [ssd]
Households
Scope
The survey covered the following topics:
- Household demographic characteristics
- Household roster
- Household assets
- Access to basic services
- Economic activities
- Communal resource management
- Child anthropometry
- Children living elsewhere
- Housing
- Food security
- Food consumption outside the household
- Education
- Health
- Labour
- Credit
- Subjective assessment of well-being
- Fishery
- Agriculture
- Crop production and sales
- Household enterprises
- Other income
- Farm implements, machinery and structures
- Shocks and coping strategies
- Gifts
- Non-farm enterprises
- Market prices
| Topic | Vocabulary |
|---|---|
| Food (production, crisis) | FAO |
| Land (policy, resource management) | FAO |
| Access to Finance | FAO |
| Health | FAO |
| Population & Reproductive Health | FAO |
| Water | FAO |
| Poverty | FAO |
| Children & Youth | FAO |
| Community Driven Development | FAO |
| Gender | FAO |
| Animal health | FAO |
Coverage
National
The IHPS attempted to track all baseline households (from the IHS3) as well as individuals that moved away from the baseline dwellings between 2010 and 2013 as long as they were neither servants nor guests at the time of the IHS3; were projected to be at least 12 years of age and were known to be residing in mainland Malawi but excluding those in Likoma Island and in institutions, including prisons, police compounds, and army barracks.
Producers and sponsors
| Name | Affiliation |
|---|---|
| National Statistical Office | Government of Malawi |
| Name | Affiliation | Role |
|---|---|---|
| Living Standards Measurement Study - Integrated Surveys on Agriculture | The World Bank | Technical assistance |
| Name | Role |
|---|---|
| Government of Malawi | Funded the study |
| The World Bank | Funded the study |
| Millennium Challenge Corporation | Funded the study |
| Irish Aid | Funded the study |
| German Development Corporation | Funded the study |
| Department for International Development | Funded the study |
Sampling
A sub-sample of IHS3 sample enumeration areas (EAs) (i.e. 204 EAs out of 768 EAs) was selected prior to the start of the IHS3 field work with the intention to (i) to track and resurvey these households in 2013 in accordance with the IHS3 fieldwork timeline and as part of the Integrated Household Panel Survey (IHPS) and (ii) visit a total of 3,246 households in these EAs twice to reduce recall associated with different aspects of agricultural data collection. At baseline, the IHPS sample was selected to be representative at the national, regional, urban/rural levels and for each of the following 6 strata: (i) Northern Region - Rural, (ii) Northern Region - Urban, (iii) Central Region - Rural, (iv) Central Region - Urban, (v) Southern Region - Rural, and (vi) Southern Region - Urban.
The methodology used to calculate the IHPS panel weights (provided in the data as panel weight) is discussed in detail in “Weight calculations for panel surveys with sub-sampling and split-off tracking”. In order to analyse the IHPS 2013 data and produce accurate representativeness of the population, the sample variables were weighted using the variable panel weight and taking into account the complex survey design implied by the variables “ea_id” and “stratum”.
Data collection
| Start | End |
|---|---|
| 2013-04 | 2013-12 |
The reference period for the study was from April 2013 to November 2013.
Data processing
The IHPS CSPro based data entry application was designed to stream-line the data collection process from the field. Completed data capture for enumerations areas was packaged automatically by the data entry application into a compressed zip file specific to each enumeration area code. These files contained all household level interviews for that enumeration area and were then submitted back to the NSO central office. These files were to be transmitted back on a rolling basis. For IHPS the field teams were each provided an internet dongle and airtime for timely submission of the data files as limited access to internet cafes and file corruption was a notable issue in the IHS3 project.
Once data files were received by the NSO central office, enumeration area files were downloaded and catalogued by date received. Data was compiled and exported into Stata files on a regular basis and weekly reports were generated with assistance from the IHPS World Bank Resident Advisor on the status of data completion. Over-all data collection status reports were relayed to NSO IHPS Managers on a weekly basis. Overdue or incomplete data files were flagged for immediately follow-up.
The IHPS data files received from the field were also downloaded by the IHPS Data Manager and uploaded to the data verification server to await second data entry. To perform second data entry, individual computers would retrieve and load the field data for the specific enumeration area. Once data verification was complete, verified enumeration data files were zipped and uploaded automatically to the server. Daily back-up of the server to a local network computer was conducted at the end of every day and back-ups to remote location weekly.
Data Access
| Is signing of a confidentiality declaration required? | Confidentiality declaration text |
|---|---|
| yes | https://microdata.worldbank.org/index.php/terms-of-use |
The use of this dataset must be acknowledged using a citation which would include:
- the identification of the Primary Investigator (including country name)
- the full title of the survey and its acronym (when available), and the year(s) of implementation
- the survey reference number
- the source and date of download (for datasets disseminated online)
Example:
National Statistical Office. Malawi Integrated Household Panel Survey 2010-2013 (Short-Term Panel, 204 EAs), Ref. MWI_2010-2013_IHPS_v01_M. Dataset downloaded from [URL] on [date].
Disclaimer and copyrights
The user of the data acknowledges that the original collector of the data, the authorized distributor of the data, and the relevant funding agency bear no responsibility for use of the data or for interpretations or inferences based upon such uses
Contacts
| Name | Affiliation | URL | |
|---|---|---|---|
| LSMS Database Manager, Development Research Group | The World Bank | [email protected] | http://www.worldbank.org/lsms-isa |
Metadata production
DDI_MWI_2010-2013_IHPS_v01_EN_M_v01_A_OCS_FAO
| Name | Affiliation | Role |
|---|---|---|
| Office of Chief Statistician | Food and Agriculture Organization | Adoption of metadata for FAM |
| Development Data Group | The World Bank | Documentation of the DDI |
Metadata version
MWI_2010-2013_IHPS_v01_EN_M_v01_A_OCS_v01