1. What We Do

The Living Standards Measurement Study (LSMS)

The World Bank's flagship household survey program since 1980.

Our programs

The LSMS strives to keep its programs aligned with the shifting global needs in policy and analytical priorities, as well as the latest advances in technology and survey methodology.

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Phone survey country results

Capturing the impact of the pandemic in Burkina Faso: results from the third ...

This article presents selected results from the third round of the Burkina Faso COVID-19 High Frequency Phone Survey

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Phone survey cross-country results

Labor market impacts of COVID-19 in four African countries

The first wave of empirical results from rapid phone surveys in Sub Saharan Africa confirm the devastating labor market impacts of the pandemic, with particularly severe impacts on the urban informal economy.

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Spotlight

High-frequency phone surveys on COVID-19

LSMS is supporting high-frequency phone surveys in Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Malawi, Mali, Nigeria, Tanzania and Uganda to track responses to and socio-economic impacts of COVID-19.
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LSMS Data Catalog

LSMS data are publicly available and open access: explore the full datasets in the World Bank’s Microdata Catalog

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The World Bank's Living Standards Measurement Study (LSMS)
1818 H Street, NW Washington, DC 20433
lsms@worldbank.org
Center for Development Data (C4D2)
Via Labicana 110 Rome 00184, Italy
c4d2@worldbank.org