HRDS: Tanzania Human Resource Development Survey

The Tanzania Human Resource Development Survey covered 5,184 households in mainland Tanzania and Zanzibar, and consisted of a household survey, a limited community questionnaire, and a price questionnaire. The field work took place between August 1993 and January 1994 for mainland Tanzania, and during July 1994 for Zanzibar. The survey was sponsored by The Population and Human Resources Division of the Eastern Africa Department of The World Bank, in collaboration with the University of Dar es Salaam and the Governemnt of Tanzania's Planning Commission.

The objectives of the survey were to provide information on the following:

• Household use of, and expenditure patterns for, social services
• Reasons for low levels of household investment in education and health services for children
• The distribution of the benefits of public spending for social services and how to improve targeting
• Households' evaluation of the social services available to them
• The potential for demand-side interventions to increase human capital investment directly (especially for girls and the poor)
• The feasibility of repeated national monitoring surveys to assess the impact of future Bank and government projects in the social sectors, and to increase Tanzania's capacity to perform household survey work

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 Tanzania HRDS

  Questionnaires, Codebooks, and other survey documents are available in PDF and PostScript format for downloading. (updated 6/12/96)

• 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 08/06/97