Peru ENNIV 1985-86: Encuesta Nacional de Hogares Sobre Medición de Niveles de Vida

The 1985-86 Peru Living Standards Survey (PLSS) or Encuesta Nacional de Hogares Sobre Medición de Niveles de Vida (ENNIV) provides individual level and household level socio-economic data from 4,913 households. All stages of the survey were performed by the Statistical Institute of Peru (Instituto Nacional de Estadística e Informática - INEI), with the technical and financial assistance of the World Bank and the Central Reserve Bank of Peru.

The unit of observation for the education, health, economic activities, fecundity, roster, and migration sections of the survey is the individual; and for housing, consumption, agro-pastoral activities, non-farm self employment, savings and credit, and home production the unit of observation is the household. The household is defined as the person or collection of persons, whether related or not, that habitually live in the same private dwelling, occupying it in part or in whole, and that tend to their life needs together .

A special characteristic of the PLSS surveys is that they provide panel data for household information obtained in the surveys. For example, the 1990 PLSS collected data from the same 727 households that were surveyed in 1985-86. The same potential exists for matching the 1994 data with the 1991 data set, but no data file containing merge codes exist.

All data files and necessary supporting documentation can be downloaded from the Net. 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 1985 Peru ENNIV

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

• Data Agreement Form

  The form states that downloading the data obligates you to cite the source of the data and to send copies of papers to the LSMS Division of the World Bank. The form also requires you to state your name, address, and intended use of the data. Once you have submitted the form, you will be sent to a page containing links to the data files. If your browser doesn't support forms (or fails to forward you to the data page upon completing the form), contact LSMS and you will receive instructions on how to progress to the page with the data files.

Revised 12/03/01