Designing Household Survey Questionnaires for Developing Countries : Lessons from 15 Years of the Living Standards Measurement Study, Volume 2

Grosh, Margaret ; Glewwe, Paul

Washington, DC:World Bank

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学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: World Bank Open Knowledge Repository

【 摘 要 】

The objective of this book is to providedetailed advice on how to design multi-topic householdsurveys based on the experience of past household surveys.The book will help identify define objectives, identify dataneeded to analyze objectives, and draft questionnaires tocollect such data. Much of the book is based on theexperience of the World Bank's Living Standard'sMeasurement Study (LSMS) program, established in 1980 toexplore ways the accuracy, timeliness, and policy relevanceof household survey data collected in developing countries.It is part of an attempt to extend the range of policyissues that can be analyzed with LSMS data; to increase thereliability and accuracy of the surveys; and to make iteasier to implement LSMS surveys. The books first discussthe "big picture" concerning the overall design ofsurveys, modules to be used, and procedures for combiningmodules into questionnaires and questionnaires into surveys.Individual modules are discussed in depth as well as majorpolicy issues. The process of manipulating modules to form abetter 'fit' in the case of a specific survey isexamined. Specific modules include: consumption, education,health employment, anthropometry, non-labor income, housing,price data, environmental issues, fertility, householdincome, savings, household enterprises, and time use. Thethird volume provides draft questionnaires, referenced inthe prior chapters.