Cote d'Ivoire Living Standards Survey (CILSS) - 1986

The Cote d'Ivoire Living Standards Survey (CILSS) was the first multi-purpose household survey to have field tested the methodology and questionnaire developed by LSMS and is composed of three complementary surveys: the household survey, the community survey and the price survey. Detailed information on household composition, expenditures, income, employment, assets, education, health, fertility and other socio-economic characteristics of the household, information on economic and demographic characteristics of communities to which each cluster of households belonged and data on prices at the nearest market to each cluster of households were collected using these surveys. The primary objective of the survey is to allow detailed analysis of the standard of living of the Ivorian population in general and of the poor in particular.

The CILSS was undertaken over a period of four years (1985-88) by the Department of Statistics in Cote d'Ivoire, with financial and technical support from the World Bank during the first two years of the survey. The sample size each year consists of approximately 1,600 households and the sample design was a rotating panel. That is, half of the households were revisited the following year, while the other half were replaced with new households. The survey thus produced a sequence of four cross-sectional data sets as well as three overlapping panels of about 800 households each (1985-86, 1986-87 and 1987-88).

All data files and necessary supporting documentation for CILSS can be downloaded from the site. To obtain the data, first read the sections describing the formats of the data and documentation, then fill in the 'Data Use Agreement Form', and finally download the data and documents.

• Description of Document Formats

  General description of PDF and PostScript formats

• Description of Data Formats

  General description of ASCII, Stata, and SAS portable data formats

• Documentation for the 1986 CILS Survey

  Questionnaires, Codebooks, and other survey documents are available in PDF and PostScript format for downloading.

• Data from the 1986 CILS Survey

  This section provides a description of the data files. If you decide to download the data, you will need to first fill out the data agreement form found in this section.

Revised 04/07/00