The 2003/04 Integrated Household Survey (IHS) is the first of its kind ever conducted in The Gambia. The survey lasted for a period of more than one year to take into account the seasonal variations. It covers approximately 4,600 households randomly selected based on probability proportional to size across the 8 Local Government Areas (LGA) of the country. The primary objectives of the study were to monitor the determinants of poverty and its dynamics, provide the Gambia Government and other policy makers and planners with the necessary socio-economic data for poverty monitoring and policy formulation, to rebase as well as provide weights for the Consumer Price Index (CPI) and to provide the necessary data to update the System of National Accounts (SNA) that will eventually lead to the move from SNA 1968 to SNA 1993. As such the outputs of the IHS include five reports namely: the poverty analysis, consumption of Gambian households, living standard analysis, the 2004 National Consumption Price Index of The Gambia and the methodology of the analysis. I hope the different reports of the IHS will meet the data requirements of all stakeholders, especially the Strategy for Poverty Alleviation Coordination Office and the Department of State for finance and Economic Affairs.