The , the World Bank¡¯s flagship household survey program, is organizing a conference, The Pulse of Progress: Harnessing High-Frequency Survey Data for Development Research in the Polycrisis Era, which will take place on December 17-18, 2024, at the World Bank Headquarters in Washington, D.C.
This two-day conference will celebrate four years of the LSMS conducting longitudinal in Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Malawi, Nigeria, Tanzania, and Uganda.
Initially launched to address data and knowledge gaps related to the COVID-19 pandemic, these surveys developed to facilitate routine monitoring of large-scale events, such as health emergencies or extreme weather occurrences, and their socioeconomic impacts on communities.
They have had a transformative impact on national statistical and data systems, complementing existing in-person survey infrastructure with high-frequency data collection on policy-relevant topics. To date, more than 100 survey rounds and 200,000 interviews have been completed across the six countries.
The Pulse of Progress: Harnessing High-Frequency Survey Data for Development Research in the Polycrisis Era conference aims to showcase applied research that leverages high-frequency phone survey data, including but not limited to the LSMS-HFPS, as the primary data source for addressing substantive questions in development economics and related fields.
Submissions, papers, topics and data
In April 2024, we launched a inviting researchers, particularly those at the beginning of their careers, to submit abstracts covering a wide range of topics, such as:
| Resilience and shocks | Food security |
| Health | Inequality, poverty and wellbeing |
| Education | Jobs and labor |
| Climate change | Agriculture |
| Conflict and fragility | Gender |
The authors of the abstracts selected by an internal committee will submit their full papers by November 8, and those will be presented at the conference, on December 17-18, 2024.
Submissions using the LSMS-HFPS data were particularly encouraged, and with that objective, an open-access, harmonized dataset was created. It is still available for consultation (dataset) and (stata syntax).
The dataset covers all LSMS-HFPS survey rounds and allows linkages at the household and individual levels over time. It can be integrated with the LSMS-Integrated Survey on Agriculture (LSMS-ISA) series of nationally representative face-to-face household surveys in the same countries, which include geo-variables and cluster locations.
The scope of data can be explored on the LSMS webpage, while the raw and data is available on the .
Contact: LSMS_HFPS@worldbank.org