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Harmonized Survey on Households Living Standards 2021-2022
Cross-Section Survey

Burkina Faso, 2021 - 2022
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Reference ID
BFA_2021_2022_EHCVM_v01_M_v01_A_ESS
Producer(s)
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)
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Apr 08, 2026
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  • Study Description
  • Data Dictionary
  • Downloads
  • Get Microdata
  • Related datasets
  • Identification
  • Scope
  • Coverage
  • Producers and sponsors
  • Sampling
  • Survey instrument
  • Data collection
  • Data Access
  • Disclaimer and copyrights
  • Contacts
  • Metadata production
  • Identification

    Survey ID number

    BFA_2021_2022_EHCVM_v01_M_v01_A_ESS

    Title

    Harmonized Survey on Households Living Standards 2021-2022

    Subtitle

    Cross-Section Survey

    Abbreviation or Acronym

    EHCVM2 2021-22

    Translated Title

    Enquête Harmonisée sur le Conditions de Vie des Ménages 2021-2022

    Country
    Name Country code
    Burkina Faso BFA
    Study type

    Living Standards Measurement Study [hh/lsms]

    Series Information

    The Burkina Faso Harmonized Survey on Households Living Standards (EHCVM, Enquête Harmonisée sur le Conditions de Vie des Ménages) 2021-2022 is the cross-sectional component of the second 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 EHCVM 2021/2022 is based on a sample of households from a new sampling frame compared to the first edition, namely the EHCVM 2018/2019, and it includes a total of 7176 households.

    Abstract

    The EHCVM 2021/2022 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 INSD to conduct living conditions surveys that meet harmonized, regional standards and to make the collected micro-data publicly accessible.

    The survey uses two main survey instruments: a household/individual questionnaire, and a community-level questionnaire. The cross-sectional survey took place in two waves, with each wave covering half of the sample. The first wave was carried out between September 2021 and November 2021, while the second wave occurred between April 2022 and June 2022. The two-wave approach was chosen to account for the seasonality of consumption.

    Kind of Data

    Sample survey data [ssd]

    Unit of Analysis

    Households
    Individuals
    Communities

    Scope

    Notes

    The EHCVM 2021/2022 survey 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
    • Non-food consumption (past 7 days / 30 days / 3 months recall / 6 months recall)
    • Non-agricultural enterprises
    • Housing
    • Household's assets
    • Transfers
    • Shocks and survival strategies (including the impacts of Covid-19)
    • 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

    Geographic Coverage

    National coverage

    Universe

    The survey covered all de jure households excluding prisons, hospitals, military barracks, and school dormitories.

    Producers and sponsors

    Primary investigators
    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)
    Producers
    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
    Funding Agency/Sponsor
    Name Abbreviation Role
    World Bank Group WBG Funded the study

    Sampling

    Sampling Procedure

    The sampling frame of the EHCVM 2021/2022 consisted of a list of all enumeration areas (EAs) from the General Population and Housing Census 2019. In the first stage, 600 EAs were selected proportionally based on their size in terms of the number of households derived from the mapping. In the second stage, a sample of 7200 households, namely 12 households per EA, were selected using equal probability sampling in each enumeration area. The final size of the panel sample was 7176 households, of which 3585 were interviewed in the first wave and 3591 in the second wave.

    Survey instrument

    Questionnaires

    The EHCVM 2021/2022 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 household 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 (including information on Covid-19 impacts); 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

    Dates of Data Collection
    Start End Cycle
    2021-09 2021-11 First visit
    2022-04 2022-06 Second visit
    Mode of data collection
    • Computer Assisted Personal Interview [capi]
    Data Collectors
    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

    Access authority
    Name Affiliation Email
    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]
    Confidentiality
    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.
    Access conditions

    Public use files, accessible to all

    Citation requirements

    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 2021-2022. Ref. BFA_EHCVM-2_2021_v01_M. Dataset downloaded from www.microdata.worldbank.org on [date].

    Disclaimer and copyrights

    Disclaimer

    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

    Contacts
    Name Affiliation Email
    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]
    Living Standard Measurement Study World Bank Group [email protected]

    Metadata production

    DDI Document ID

    DDI_BFA_2021_2022_EHCVM_v01_M_v01_A_ESS_FAO

    Producers
    Name Abbreviation Affiliation Role
    Development Data Group DECDG World Bank Group Metadata producer
    Statistics Division ESS Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Metadata adapted for FAM
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    Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

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