World Bank Living Standards Measurement Study High-Frequency Phone Surveys

The Living Standards Measurement Study (LSMS) is supporting longitudinal high-frequency phone surveys in Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Malawi, Nigeria, Tanzania and Uganda for routine monitoring and tracking responses to and socio-economic impacts of shocks. Initially motivated by the COVID-19 pandemic, high-frequency phone surveys have been rolled out rapidly in 2020 across low- and middle-income countries with otherwise limited past experience with phone-based data collection.

Survey Data and Reports

^{FEATURED! The Evolution of COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy in Sub-Saharan Africa : Evidence from Panel Survey Data}

Drawing on two years of panel survey data, this paper studies the dynamics of vaccine acceptance, its correlates, and reasons for hesitancy over time.