Capturing What Matters: Essential Guidelines for Designing Household Surveys

This guidebook is a consolidation of field-tested best practices to implement, improve, and modernize nationally representative multi-topic household surveys for monitoring welfare and poverty. Offered as a reference guide for task team leaders (TTLs) within the World Bank, the guidebook is intended as a powerful tool for any survey practitioners (such as national statistical offices (NSOs), development partners, educators, researchers, and students) implementing household surveys in low and middle-income countries.

This guidebook starts with survey design, the first step in any survey undertaking, with careful attention given to minimizing non-sampling errors. Subsequent sections are sampling; questionnaire modules, which form the core of this guidebook; followed by geographic information systems (GIS); computer-assisted personal interviewing (CAPI); and finally, documentation and dissemination of the resulting data. Due to the evolving nature of household surveys, this will be a living document, to be continually updated as new recommendations become available.

• Annex II: Model Household Survey Questionnaire
• Annex III: Model Household Agriculture Questionnaire

 

AUTHORS

• Oseni, Gbemisola
• Palacios-Lopez, Amparo
• Mugera, Harriet Kasidi
• Durazo, Josefine

   

Issued on

Mar, 2021