Harmonized Survey on Households Living Standards 2018/2019
Burkina Faso, 2018 - 2019
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Harmonized Survey on Households Living Standards 2018/2019
EHCVM 2018-19
Enquête Harmonisée sur le Conditions de Vie des Ménages 2018/2019
| Name | Country code |
|---|---|
| Burkina Faso | BFA |
Living Standards Measurement Study [hh/lsms]
The Burkina Faso Harmonized Survey on Households Living Standards (EHCVM, Enquête Harmonisée sur le Conditions de Vie des Ménages) 2018-2019 is the first edition of a nationally representative household survey conducted within the West Africa Economic Monetary Union (WAEMU) Household Survey Harmonization Project (P153702), a joint program by the World Bank and the WAEMU Commission that aims at producing household survey data in member countries (Benin, Burkina Faso, Chad, Cote d'Ivoire, Guinea Bissau, Mali, Niger, Senegal, and Togo). The survey covers all regions and includes approximately 7000 households.
The Burkina Faso EHCVM 2018/2019 is implemented by the National Institute of Statistics and Demography (INSD, Institut National de la Statistique et de la Démographie) with support from the World Bank and the WAEMU Commission. The objective of the program is to strengthen the capacity of its member countries (Benin, Burkina Faso, Cote d'Ivoire, Guinee Bissau, Mali, Niger, Senegal, and Togo) to conduct living conditions surveys that meet harmonized, regional standards and to make the collected micro-data publicly accessible. The EHCVM 2018/2019 is a nationally representative survey of 7000 households, which are also representative of the geopolitical zones (at both the urban and rural level).
The survey uses two main survey instruments: a household/individual questionnaire, and a community-level questionnaire. The surveys took place in two waves with each wave covering half of the sample. The first wave was carried out between October 2018 and December 2018, while the second wave occurred between April 2019 and July 2019. The two-wave approach was chosen to account for seasonality of consumption.
Sample survey data [ssd]
Households
Individuals
Communities
Scope
The EHCVM 2018/2019 covered the following topics:
HOUSEHOLD
- Household identification including geographic area identification information
- Household roster
- Education (all individuals 3 years old and older)
- Health (past 30 days / three months recall / twelve months recall)
- Employment
- Non-employment income
- Saving and credits
- Food consumption (past 7 days / 30 days recall)
- Food security
- Nonfood consumption (past 7 days / 30 days / 3 months recall / 6 months recall)
- Nonagricultural enterprises
- Housing
- Household's assets
- Transfers
- Shocks and survival strategies
- Safety nets
- Agriculture
- Livestock
- Fishing
- Agricultural equipment
- Relative poverty
COMMUNITY
- Community identification
- Respondent characteristics
- Community existence and accessibility of social services
- Community agriculture
- Community participation
- Community food prices
Coverage
National coverage
The survey covered all de jure households excluding prisons, hospitals, military barracks, and school dormitories.
Producers and sponsors
| Name |
|---|
| Ministry of Economy and Finance of Burkina Faso (MEF, Ministère de l'Economie et des Finances), National Institute of Statistics and Demography (INSD, Institut National de la Statistique et de la Démographie) |
| Name | Role |
|---|---|
| West African Economic and Monetary Union Commission (WAEMU/UEMOA) | Collaborated in design, implementation and analysis |
| World Bank Group | Collaborated in design, implementation and analysis |
| Name | Abbreviation | Role |
|---|---|---|
| World Bank Group | WBG | Funded the study |
Sampling
Upon deciding on the sample size and repartition, the survey design team implemented a two-stage sampling methodology. In the first stage, 585 enumeration areas (EAs) were selected from the sample frame. In the second stage, 12 households were randomly selected in each EA. The total survey sample size is 7010 households, of which 3149 from urban areas and 3861 from rural areas.
Then, the survey design randomly divided each enumeration area into two equal groups. The survey team interviewed the first group in wave one and the other in wave two. Finally, for various reasons, including availability and quality monitoring, the final sample size comprises slightly more households (four) in wave one than in wave two. In wave one, the survey teams interviewed 3507 households (1577 in urban areas and 1930 in rural areas). In wave two, the teams interviewed 3503 households (1572 in urban areas and 1931 in rural areas).
Survey instrument
The ECHVM 2018/2019 consists of two questionnaires for each of the two visits. The household questionnaire was administered to all households in the sample. The community questionnaire was administered to the community to collect information on the socio-economic indicators of EAs where the sample households reside.
Household Questionnaire: The households questionnaire provides information on demographics; education; health; employment (including activity-related information, primary and secondary employments); non-job revenues; saving and credit (including information for payments due for 15 years old members of the household); food consumption; food security; non-food consumption; non-agricultural enterprises; housing; household's assets; transfers (received and sent); shocks and survival strategies; safety nets; agriculture (including information on plots, costs of inputs, and crops); livestock; fishing; agricultural equipment; and a module that provides indicators to helps users situate the household on the poverty spectrum based on subjective considerations and comparative indicators.
Community Questionnaire: The community questionnaire solicits information on general community's characteristics; community access to infrastructure and to social services; community agricultural activity; community participation; and local retail price information.
Data collection
| Start | End | Cycle |
|---|---|---|
| 2018-10 | 2018-12 | First visit |
| 2019-04 | 2019-07 | Second visit |
- Computer Assisted Personal Interview [capi]
| Name | Affiliation | Abbreviation |
|---|---|---|
| National Institute of Statistics and Demography (Institut National de la Statistique et de la Démographie) | Ministry of Economy and Finance of Burkina Faso (MEF, Ministère de l'Economie et des Finances) | INSD |
Data Access
| Is signing of a confidentiality declaration required? | Confidentiality declaration text |
|---|---|
| yes |
Before being granted access to the dataset, all users have to formally agree: 1. To make no copies of any files or portions of files to which s/he is granted access except those authorized by the data depositor. 2. Not to use any technique in an attempt to learn the identity of any person, establishment, or sampling unit not identified on public use data files. 3. To hold in strictest confidence the identification of any establishment or individual that may be inadvertently revealed in any documents or discussion, or analysis. Such inadvertent identification revealed in her/his analysis will be immediately brought to the attention of the data depositor. |
Public use files, accessible to all
Use of the dataset must be acknowledged using a citation which would include:
- the Identification of the Primary Investigator
- the title of the survey (including country, acronym and year of implementation)
- the survey reference number
- the source and date of download
Institut National de la Statistique et de la Démographie (INSD), Enquête Harmonisée sur le Conditions de Vie des Ménages, Burkina Faso 2018/19. Ref. BFA_EHCVM_2018_v03_M. Dataset downloaded from www.microdata.worldbank.org 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 | |
|---|---|---|
| National Institute of Statistics and Demography (INSD, Institut National de la Statistique et de la Démographie) | Ministry of Economy and Finance of Burkina Faso (MEF, Ministère de l'Economie et des Finances) | [email protected] |
Metadata production
DDI_BFA_2018_2019_EHCVM_v01_M_v01_A_ESS_FAO
| Name | Abbreviation | Affiliation | Role |
|---|---|---|---|
| Development Economics Data Group | DECDG | World Bank Group | Metadata producer |
| Statistics Division | ESS | Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations | Metadata adapted for FAM |