Living Standards Measurement Survey 2008

Albania, 2008

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Reference ID

ALB_2008_LSMS_v01_M

Producer(s)

Institute of Statistics of Albania

Collection(s)

Living Standards Measurement Study (LSMS)

Metadata

Documentation in PDF DDI/XML JSON

Created on

Feb 07, 2014

Last modified

Apr 06, 2022

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Identification

Survey ID number

ALB_2008_LSMS_v01_M

Title

Living Standards Measurement Survey 2008

Country/Economy

Name	Country code
Albania	ALB

Study type

Living Standards Measurement Study [hh/lsms]

Series Information

The Living Standards Measurement Study (LSMS) was established by the World Bank's Development Research Group (DECRG) to explore ways of improving the type and quality of household data collected by statistical offices in developing countries. The goal is to foster increased use of household data as a basis for policy decisionmaking.

The first two LSMS surveys were fielded in Cote d'Ivoire in 1985 and in Peru in 1985-1986 and sponsored by the World Bank. Since then LSMS have been conducted in different countries around the world.

Abstract

The Living Standards Measurement Survey (LSMS) is a multi-purpose household survey conducted to measure living conditions and poverty situation, and to help policymakers in monitoring and developing social programs.

LSMS has been carried out in Albania in the context of continuing monitoring of poverty and the creation of policy evaluation system in the framework of the National Strategy for Development and Integration (previously the National Strategy for Economic and Social Development).

The first Albania LSMS was conducted in 2002, followed by 2003, 2004, 2005 and 2008 surveys. In 2008, 3,600 households participated in the survey.

Kind of Data

Sample survey data [ssd]

Unit of Analysis

individuals,
households,
communities

Scope

Notes

Households: demographic characteristics, education, communication, labor, employment, non-farm business, migration, remittances, subjective poverty, health, fertility, non-food expenditures, dwelling, utilities, durable goods, daily food consumption
Community: infrastructure and transportation, access to public services, education, sewer and garbage, organizations, collective actions, safety, migration, Albanian Development Fund

Coverage

Geographic Coverage

National

Producers and sponsors

Primary investigators

Name
Institute of Statistics of Albania

Producers

Name	Role
World Bank	Technical assistance

Data collection

Dates of Data Collection

Start	End
2008-06	2008-08

Data Access

Citation requirements

Use of the dataset must be acknowledged using a citation which would include:

the Identification of the Primary Investigator
the title of the survey (including country, acronym and year of implementation)
the survey reference number
the source and date of download

Example:

Institute of Statistics of Albania. Albania Living Standards Measurement Survey (LSMS) 2008, Ref. ALB_2008_LSMS_v01_M. Dataset downloaded from [URL] on [date].

Disclaimer and copyrights

Disclaimer

The user of the data acknowledges that the original collector of the data, the authorized distributor of the data, and the relevant funding agency bear no responsibility for use of the data or for interpretations or inferences based upon such uses.

Contacts

Name	Affiliation	Email	URL
LSMS Data Manager	The World Bank	lsms@worldbank.org	surveys.worldbank.org/lsms

Metadata production

DDI Document ID

DDI_ALB_2008_LSMS_v01_M_WB

Producers

Name	Affiliation	Role
Development Data Group	The World Bank	Documentation of the study

Date of Metadata Production

2014-02-05

Metadata version

DDI Document version

v01 (February 2014)

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