📅 17 – 18 December 2024
Washington, D.C., & Virtual
The Living Standards Measurement Study (LSMS), 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 High-Frequency Phone Surveys (HFPS) 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 were 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.
