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Welfare Monitoring Survey 2009, Fifth Round

Malawi, 2009
Reference ID
MWI_2009_WMS-R5_v01_M
Producer(s)
Agriculture Statistics Division
Metadata
DDI/XML JSON
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May 19, 2014
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    Survey ID number

    MWI_2009_WMS-R5_v01_M

    Title

    Welfare Monitoring Survey 2009, Fifth Round

    Country
    Name Country code
    Malawi MWI
    Study type

    Core Welfare Indicators Questionnaire [hh/cwiq]

    Series Information

    The Welfare Monitoring Survey (WMS) 2009 is the fifth of a series that started in 2005. It is part of the Integrated Household Survey (IHS) programme, an effort by NSO to provide relevant information for monitoring the welfare status of the people of Malawi. The IHS program includes a comprehensive integrated household survey every five years and lighter annual WMSs between the five years. The WMS survey is designed to collect the minimum amount of information necessary for the identification and classification of vulnerable groups of households within the society.WMS5 is the latest in the series of instruments that have been developed to provide policy makers with household and community level information for policy formulation and evaluation. Its questionnaire is purposefully concise and is designed to collect in addition to household's characteristics, information which measures access, utilization and satisfaction with social services. The sampling plan for WMS 2009 is designed to provide indicators at district level. This is in line with the decentralisation program of the Malawi Government.

    Abstract

    WMS is a follow-up to the Core Welfare Indicators Questionnaire Survey (CWIQ) that was undertaken by the National Statistical Office (NSO) in 2002. Unlike the CWIQ, WMS has been adapted to suit local requirements.

    The basic objective of WMS is to provide rapid information on selected core indicators in the population that would enable monitoring changes on a yearly basis.The specific objectives are to provide:

    • Indicators for monitoring living conditions of people in Malawi
    • Indicators for monitoring progress and attainment of goals outlined in the Malawi Growth and Development Strategy (MGDS) and other development programmes such as the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)
    • A regular database for socio-economic research
    Kind of Data

    Sample survey data [ssd]

    Unit of Analysis
    • Households
    • Individuals

    Scope

    Notes

    The 2009 WMS focused on the following areas:

    • Characteristics of household members
    • Health
    • Education
    • Employment
    • Housing conditions and amenities
    • Poverty
    • Child information: Births and anthropometrical measures, vaccination, malaria protection and treatment
    • Food security
    • HIV/AIDS

    Coverage

    Geographic Coverage

    Like all previous WMSs, the 2009 series collected data from a representative sample at national, regional and district level.

    Producers and sponsors

    Primary investigators
    Name Affiliation
    Agriculture Statistics Division National Statistical Office of Malawi (NSO)
    Funding Agency/Sponsor
    Name Role
    Norwegian Government Funding and technical assistance

    Sampling

    Sampling Procedure

    WMS 2009 sample frame was the 2006/07 National census of Agriculture and Livestock (NACAL). NACAL contained 25,000 households and 1,660 Enumeration Areas (EAs) across the country, drawn as a two stage design. The WMS 2009 sample consisted of 999 EAs, and 18 households were systematically selected from each EA. Since the EAs were drawn from the NACAL sample frame, there was no listing of the households. More EAs were included in the sample so as to provide estimates at district level.

    Weighting

    The sample for 2009 WMS was not self weighting. A set of household weights were calculated to obtain unbiased estimates at national, regional and district levels.

    Survey instrument

    Questionnaires

    A questionnaire was used to collect information about every individual in the households selected for the survey. This was to a large extent similar to other WMSs in order to ascertain information on demography, health, education, employment, poverty, child health and nutritional status comparable between the two WMSs. As in the previous WMSs, electronic scales were used for weighting under five children and measuring boards were used to get children's heights. The anthropometrical information was used to assess nutritional status of children.

    Data collection

    Dates of Data Collection
    Start End Cycle
    2009-08 2009-11 Data Collection

    Data processing

    Data Editing

    Data processing involved:

    • Editing and scanning questionnaires using Eyes and Hands software
    • Conducting consistency checks and cleaning data in SPSS
    • Designing tabulation plans in SPSS
    • Table editing in Microsoft Excel
    • Compilation of the report using Microsoft Word

    Data Access

    Access authority
    Name Affiliation URL Email
    Agriculture Statistics Division National Statistical Office of Malawi www.nsomalawi.mw enquiries@statistics.gov.mw
    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:
    Agriculture Statistics Division, National Statistical Office of Malawi. Welfare Monitoring Survey (WMS-R5) 2009. Ref. MWI_2009_WMS-R5_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

    Contacts
    Name Affiliation Email URL
    Agriculture Statistics Division National Statistical Office of Malawi enquiries@statistics.gov.mw www.nsomalawi.mw

    Metadata production

    DDI Document ID

    DDI_MWI_2009_WMS-R5_v01_M_WB

    Producers
    Name Affiliation Role
    Development Economics Data Group The World Bank Documentation of the DDI
    Date of Metadata Production

    2013-03-20

    Metadata version

    DDI Document version

    Version 02 (April 2014). Version 01 (March 2013)

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