Integrated Household Panel Survey 2010-2013 (Short-Term Panel, 204 EAs)
Malawi, 2010 - 2013
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Integrated Household Panel Survey 2010-2013 (Short-Term Panel, 204 EAs)
| 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 (NSO; www.nso.malawi.net) 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’ behavior and welfare, distribution of income, employment, health and education. The Second Integrated Household Survey (IHS2; http://go.worldbank.org/JABABM36V0) 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) and (ii) visit a total of 3,246 households in these EAs twice to reduce recall associated with different aspects of agricultural data collection. The LSMS-ISA initiative provided technical and financial assistance to the design and implementation of the IHPS, alongside DFID, Norway and Government of Malawi funding for the exercise. The IHPS main fieldwork took place during the period of April-October 2013, with residual tracking operations in November-December 2013.
Sample survey data [ssd]
- Household
- Individual
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
- Labor
- 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
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.. The LSMS-ISA initiative provided technical and financial assistance to the design and implementation of the IHPS, alongside DFID, Norway and Government of Malawi funding for the exercise. The IHPS main fieldwork took place during the period of April-October 2013, with residual tracking operations in November-December 2013.
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” (Himelein, 2013). In order to analyze the IHPS 2013 data and produce accurate representativeness of the population, the sample variables must be weighted using the variable panel weight and taking into account the complex survey design implied by the variables ea_id and stratum.
Survey instrument
The IHPS was comprised of the following questionnaires :
- Agriculture Questionnaire
- Community Questionnaire
- Fishery Questionnaire
- Household Questionnaire
- Market Questionnaire
Data collection
| Start | End |
|---|---|
| 2010 | 2013 |
2013/04-2013/11
| Name | Affiliation |
|---|---|
| National Statistical Office | Government of Malawi |
The IHPS field based supervisors were responsible for managing the daily operations of their respective field based mobile team. Primary responsibilities included: (1) liaising with the IHPS management on schedules, field operation status, equipment status and needs, and special issues, (2) planning daily field operation schedules including coverage and transportation for both original households and local and distance tracking cases received, (3) liaise with local authorities before commencing interview activities, (4) reviewing incoming questionnaires for completion and accuracy, (5) managing data entry schedule for completed questionnaires, (6) reviewing computer assisted field entry (CAFE) reports for field entered questionnaires, assigning physical questionnaire reviews, and authorizing review/call back completion, (7) administering community questionnaires within each enumeration area, (8) monitoring data entry and confirming completed data files from data entry clerks and regularly transmitting data to the NSO central office in Zomba.
Fieldwork for the IHPS began in April 2013 and was administered simultaneously throughout the country until November 2013. Although fieldwork was initially scheduled for 6 months, due to funding delays halfway through the project and an additional 3 weeks devoted to a tracking marathon at the end of the survey operation, the survey period was extended to 7 months. 12 field-based mobile teams consisting of 1 supervisor, 3-4 enumerators, 1 data entry clerk and 1 driver were assigned to cover specific districts and a 13th mobile tracking team was assigned to assist strictly with tracking cases. Each of the 12 field-based mobile teams was responsible for covering 12-17 EAs containing 14-16 baseline households in each. Each team selected a centrally located base in their respective assigned areas as a base of field operations to be used over the field work period.
Each team supervisor received their full workload at the start of fieldwork aside from the mobile tracking team. The teams were each provided with (1) T-0 forms containing the household and plot rosters from IHS3 and the location and household member and plot characteristics for each baseline panel household. (2) enumeration area maps, (3) color coded, adequate set of questionnaire instruments to be administered in accordance with a given EA's Panel A vs. Panel B status, and (4) the T-1 and T-2 tracking forms.
The teams used the T-0 form to identify the panel households in a particular EA. If they approached a household using the location information on the T-0 and found that the entire household moved together, then the enumerator filled a T-1 form containing information on the new location of the household. If they found that any IHS3 household members (excluding live-in servants and those less than 12 years of age) had split from the rest of the household then they filled a T-2 form containing location information on the respondent and characteristics of the individual which may help the enumerator to identify them in their year 2 location. T-1 and T-2 forms were filled for both local (i.e. within-district) and distance (i.e. outside-district) tracking. Local tracking refers to cases where the respondent lived within one hour traveling distance from the original EA and distance tracking occurred when the respondent moved farther away.
All 12 field-based mobile teams were responsible for interviewing their baseline households remaining in the same location, local tracking cases and distance tracking cases falling into their assigned districts. The 13th tracking team existed to assist the 12 field-based teams with their tracking workload. This team spent most of their time in Lilongwe and Blantyre throughout fieldwork given that many sample members migrated to the cities.
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 cataloged 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
| Name | Affiliation | URL | |
|---|---|---|---|
| LSMS Database Manager, Development Research Group | The World Bank | http://www.worldbank.org/lsms-isa | lsms@worldbank.org |
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- the survey reference number
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Contacts
| Name | Affiliation | URL | |
|---|---|---|---|
| LSMS Database Manager, Development Research Group | The World Bank | lsms@worldbank.org | http://www.worldbank.org/lsms-isa |
Metadata production
DDI_MWI_2010-2013_IHPS_v01_M_WB
| Name | Affiliation | Role |
|---|---|---|
| Development Data Group | The World Bank | Documentation of the DDI |
2015-04-14
Metadata version
Version 02 (December 2017)