LSMS Recap - 2022

The world has been experiencing major economic shocks. Rising prices, food insecurity, the war in Ukraine and the worsening economic conditions all call for high quality, timely data to inform policymaking.

In 2022, the LSMS team has continued collecting and analyzing high frequency phone survey data in Africa to track the impacts of the shocks, and publishing research on some of the most pressing topics such as climate change induced migration, employment conditions during the pandemic, tackling gender data gaps, while uncovering the uneven effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on national statistical offices, and more.

Looking towards the future, in a new paper developed under the Inter-Secretariat Working Group on Household Surveys, we identified eight technical priorities that would help the NSOs position household surveys for the next decade.

Here is a selective collection of LSMS resources that we produced in 2022. We picked one resource per month for you:

January - Survey on the Implementation of the Cape Town Global Action Plan for Sustainable Development Data

February - Three ways to tackle gender data gaps – and 12 countries embracing the challenge

March - Measuring Disaster Crop Production Losses Using Survey Microdata : Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa

April - Better energy access starts with better data

May - Loss(t) in translation? Measuring disaster crop losses in surveys

June - COVID-19 pandemic and internally displaced people: Data collection during a double crisis in Burkina Faso

July - Leveraging household surveys to boost research on climate migration

August - Less-educated workers among the most affected by the COVID-19 pandemic: Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa

September - From Necessity to Opportunity : Lessons for Integrating Phone and In-Person Data Collection for Agricultural Statistics in a Post-Pandemic World

October - Price and weather shocks: results from the eighth round of the High-Frequency Phone Survey