Enquête Harmonisée sur le Conditions de Vie des Ménages 2018-2019
Benin, 2018 - 2019
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BEN_2018_EHCVM_v02_M
Enquête Harmonisée sur le Conditions de Vie des Ménages 2018-2019
Harmonized Survey on Households Living Standards 2018-2019
| Name | Country code |
|---|---|
| Benin | BEN |
Living Standards Measurement Study [hh/lsms]
The Benin EHCVM 2018/19 is the first edition of a nationally representative household survey conducted within the West Africa Economic Monetary Union (WAEMU) Household Survey harmonization Project (P153702) a joint program by the World Bank and the WAEMU Commision that aims at producing household survey data in member countries (Benin, Burkina Faso, Chad, Cote d’Ivoire, Guinea Bissau, Mali, Niger, Senegal and Togo). The survey covers all regions and includes approximately 8,000 households.
The Benin EHCVM 2018/19 is implemented by the National institute of Statistics and Economical Analysis (INSAE) with support from the World Bank and the WAEMU Commission. The objective of the program is to strengthen the capacity of its member countries (Benin, Burkina Faso, Cote d’Ivoire, Guinee Bissau, Mali, Niger, Senegal, and Togo) to conduct living conditions surveys that meet harmonized, regional standards and to make the collected micro-data publicly accessible. The EHCVM is a nationally representative survey of 8,000 households, which are also representative of the geopolitical zones (at both the urban and rural level).
The survey uses two main survey instruments: a household/individual questionnaire, and a community-level questionnaire. The surveys took place in two waves with each wave covering half of the sample. The first wave was fielded between October 2018 and December 2018, while the second wave occurred between April 2019 and July 2019. The two-wave approach was chosen to account for seasonality of consumption.
Sample survey data [ssd]
- Household
- Individual
- Community
Version
Version 02: Edited and anonymous data for public distribution.
Version 01: Additional data includes:
- ehcvm_ponderations_BEN2018
- ehcvm_individu_BEN2018
- ehcvm_menage_BEN2018
- ehcvm_welfare_BEN2018
Version 02: One dataset has been added:
- grappe_gps_ben2018
Scope
The Enquête Harmonisée sur le Conditions de Vie des Ménage 2018/19 covered the following topics:
HOUSEHOLD
- Household identification including geographic area identification information
- Household roster
- Education (all individuals 3 years old and older)
- Health (past 30 days / three months recall / twelve months recall)
- Employment
- Non-employment income
- Saving and credits
- Food consumption (past 7 days / 30 days recall)
- Food security
- Nonfood consumption (past 7 days / 30 days / 3 months recall / 6 months recall)
- Nonagricultural enterprises
- Housing
- Household’s assets
- Transfers
- Shocks and survival strategies
- Safety nets
- Agriculture
- Livestock
- Fishing
- Agricultural equipment
- Relative poverty
COMMUNITY
- Community identification
- Respondent characteristics
- Community existence and accessibility of social services
- Community agriculture
- Community participation
- Community food prices
Coverage
National coverage
The survey covered all de jure households excluding prisons, hospitals, military barracks, and school dormitories.
Producers and sponsors
| Name | Affiliation |
|---|---|
| Institut National de la Statistique et de l’Analyse Économique (INSAE) | Gouvernement du Benin |
| Name | Role |
|---|---|
| WAEMU Commission | Collaborated in design, implementation and analysis |
| World Bank Group | Collaborated in design, implementation and analysis |
| Name | Role |
|---|---|
| World Bank Group | Funded the study |
Sampling
The Benin EHCVM 2018/19 used the 2013 Census of Population and Housing (RGPH) as the sampling frame. This frame contains 10032 enumeration areas, is nationally representative, and covers all regions with urban and rural areas surveyed in all regions apart from Littoral, a purely urban region. In Benin, the survey design decided on the sample size using the poverty rate - obtained from the 2011 Integrated Modular Survey on living conditions of households - as a variable of interest. Then the survey design split the decided sample size among regions considering the number of households in the region and the necessity to minimize the relative error. The survey design also defined the domains as country, urban and rural areas, and each of the 12 regions. Taking this into account, 23 explicit sample strata were selected.
Upon deciding on the sample size and repartition, the survey design team implemented a 2-stage sampling methodology. At the first stage, 670 enumeration areas (EAs) were selected with Probability Proportional to Size (PPS) using the 2013 RGPH and the number of households as a measure of size. In the second stage, 12 households were selected in each enumeration area randomly.
The total estimated survey sample size was 8040 households - 3960 from urban areas and 4080 from rural areas. After that, the survey design randomly divided each enumeration area into two equal groups. The survey team interrogated the first group in wave 1 and the other in wave 2. Finally, for various reasons, including availability and quality monitoring, the final sample size comprises 8012 households, including 3940 households from urban areas and 4072 households from rural areas. In wave one, the survey teams interviewed 3997 households (1940 in urban areas and 2057 in rural areas. In wave two, the teams interviewed 4015 households (2000 in urban areas and 2015 in rural areas).
Survey instrument
The Benin ECHVM 2018/19 consists of two questionnaires for each of the two visits. The Household Questionnaires was administered to all households in the sample. The Community Questionnaire was administered to the community to collect information on the socio-economic indicators of the enumeration areas where the sample households reside.
EHCVM 2018/19 Household Questionnaire: The Households Questionnaire provides information on demographics; education; health; employment (including activity-related information, primary and secondary employments); nonjob revenues; saving and credit (including information for payments due for 15 years old members of the household); food consumption; food security; nonfood consumption; nonagricultural enterprises; housing; household’s assets; transfers (received and sent); shocks and survival strategies; safety nets; agriculture (including information on plots, costs of inputs, and crops); livestock; fishing; agricultural equipment; and a module that provides indicators to helps users situate the household on the poverty spectrum based on subjective considerations and comparative indicators.
EHCVM 2018/19 Community Questionnaire: The Community Questionnaire solicits information on general community’s characteristics; community access to infrastructure and to social services; community agricultural activity; community participation; and local retail price information.
Data collection
| Start | End | Cycle |
|---|---|---|
| 2018-10 | 2018-12 | First visit |
| 2019-04 | 2019-07 | Second visit |
- Computer Assisted Personal Interview [capi]
| Name | Affiliation |
|---|---|
| Institut National de la Statistique et de l’Analyse Économique | Gouvernement du Benin |
Interviews were conducted by teams of enumerators. Each team comprised three enumerators and a team lead. In each team, the three members were responsible for administering the household questionnaire and the market price data collection, while the team lead was responsible for administering the community questionnaire.
Overall, six supervisors for the 30 teams were constituted for this survey. This represents a total of 5 teams per supervisor. The supervision team conducted five technical supervision missions and one administrative and financial mission during the data collection phase. Control occurred at two levels: On the field, with team leaders double-checking data collected by team members, and at the headquarters, where four control agents were recruited to edit the data synchronized on the online data collection tool.
Data Access
| Is signing of a confidentiality declaration required? | Confidentiality declaration text |
|---|---|
| yes | Before being granted access to the dataset, all users have to formally agree: 1. To make no copies of any files or portions of files to which s/he is granted access except those authorized by the data depositor. 2. Not to use any technique in an attempt to learn the identity of any person, establishment, or sampling unit not identified on public use data files. 3. To hold in strictest confidence the identification of any establishment or individual that may be inadvertently revealed in any documents or discussion, or analysis. Such inadvertent identification revealed in her/his analysis will be immediately brought to the attention of the data depositor. |
Public use files, accessible to all
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
WAEMU Commission, Harmonized Survey on Households Living Standards, Benin 2018/19. Ref. BEN_2018_EHCVM_v02_M. Dataset downloaded from www.microdata.worldbank.org on [date].
Disclaimer and copyrights
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 | URL | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Institut National de la Statistique et de l’Analyse Économique (INSAE) | Gouvernement du Benin | insae@insae-bj.org | insae-bj.org |
Metadata production
DDI_BEN_2018_EHCVM_v02_M_WB
| Name | Affiliation | Role |
|---|---|---|
| Development Economics Data Group | The World Bank | Documentation of the DDI |
2022-02-07
Metadata version
Version 02 (August 2022)