Livelihoods Programme Monitoring Beneficiary Survey 2023

Mauritania, 2023

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Reference ID

MRT_2023_LIS_v01_M

Producer(s)

UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR)

Collection(s)

United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR)

Metadata

Documentation in PDF DDI/XML JSON

Study website

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Nov 13, 2025

Last modified

Nov 13, 2025

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Identification

Survey ID number

MRT_2023_LIS_v01_M

Title

Livelihoods Programme Monitoring Beneficiary Survey 2023

Abbreviation or Acronym

LIS 2023

Country/Economy

Name	Country code
Mauritania	MRT

Study type

Other Household Survey [hh/oth]

Series Information

The UNHCR Livelihoods Monitoring Framework surveys are designed to promote a standardized approach to tracking program performance and impact through revised impact and performance indicators with concrete definitions, which have made them more focused, precise and relevant to the key intervention areas. The data and the key analysis are available for UNHCR - and externally - financed programs across three primary focus areas - agriculture, self-employment and wage-employment - in terms of assets, employment, market access and more.

Abstract

The UNHCR Livelihoods Monitoring Framework takes a program-based approach to monitoring, with the aim of tracking both outputs and the impact of UNHCR dollars spent on programming (either via partners or through direct implementation).

The process for developing the indicators began in 2015 with a review of existing tools and approaches. Consultations were held with governments, the private sector, field-based staff and civil society partners to devise a set of common, standardized measures rooted in global good practices.

More info is available on the official website: https://lis.unhcr.org

Kind of Data

Sample survey data [ssd]

Unit of Analysis

Household

Scope

Notes

The scope includes:

Partner information including location of household and type of survey round (Baseline/ Endline)
General information on beneficiary
Access to agriculture production enabled and enhanced (social assets, financial access, agricultural employment, crop production, animal production, fishery production, market access, change income/saving)
Access to self-employment/ business facilitated (social assets, financial access, self-employment, market access, changing in income/saving)
Access to wage employment facilitated (social assets, financial access, wage employment, change in income/ saving)

Topics

Topic
Income Generation
Agriculture
Livestock/Animal Husbandry
Fisheries
Capacity Building/Training
Livelihood and Social cohesion
Solutions

Keywords

LIS Livelihood

Producers and sponsors

Primary investigators

Name	Affiliation
UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR)	UN

Sampling

Sampling Procedure

The sampling was conducted by each participating operations based on general sampling guidance provided as the following:

If the total number of beneficiaries was less than 100, then the survey included all the beneficiaries.
Otherwise, 10% of the total beneficiaries was taken as the sample size.
If the above 10% resulted in less than 100, then 100 was the minimum sample size.
If the above 10% resulted in more than 1000, then 1,000 was the maximum sample size.

Survey instrument

Questionnaires

Questionnaire contains the following sections:

partner information
general information on beneficiary
agriculture
self-employment
wage-employment
financial inclusion

Data collection

Dates of Data Collection

Start	End
2023-01-01	2023-12-31

Data Collection Mode

Face-to-face [f2f]

Data Collectors

Name	Affiliation	Abbreviation
UN Refugee Agency	UN	UNHCR

Data Collection Notes

Data was collected through computer-assisted face-to-face interviewing

Access policy

Citation requirements

UNHCR (2023). Mauritania: Livelihoods Programme Monitoring Beneficiary Survey, 2023. Accessed from: https://microdata.unhcr.org

Contacts

Name	Affiliation	Email
Curation team	UNHCR	microdata@unhcr.org

Metadata production

DDI Document ID

DDI_MRT_2023_LIS_v01_M

Producers

Name	Abbreviation	Affiliation	Role
UN Refugee Agency	UNHCR	UN	Documentation of the study
Development Data Group	DECDG	World Bank Group	Metadata adapted for World Bank Microdata Library

Date of Metadata Production

2025-09-27

Metadata version

DDI Document version

Identical to a metadata (UNHCR_MRT_2023_LIS_v2.1) published on UNHCR catalog (https://microdata.unhcr.org/index.php/home). Some of the metadata fields have been edited.

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