On October 15, 2015, World Bank Group President Jim
Yong Kim announced the World Bank Group’s commitment
to support the 78 poorest countries to implement
a multi-topic household survey every three years between
2016 and 2030, for monitoring progress toward ending
extreme poverty and boosting shared prosperity. This paper
estimates the resource requirements to achieve the objectives
of implementing 390 surveys across 78 International
Development Association countries from 2016 to 2030,
and providing direct technical assistance to the national
statistical offices on all facets of survey design, implementation,
and dissemination toward timely production of
quality household survey data. The approach to the costing
exercise is unique, as it makes use of detailed data on actual
survey implementation and technical assistance costs from
a group of countries, unlike previous attempts at costing
household survey data gaps. The required total budget, in
accordance with the survey design features recommended
by the World Bank Household Survey Strategy, is estimated
at US$945 million for the period of 2016-2030.
Of this, US$692 million is projected to cover the survey
implementation costs across 78 countries, and US$253
million is projected to cover the costs of direct technical
assistance to be provided to the national statistical offices.