The Living Standards Measurement Study (LSMS) is supporting longitudinal high-frequency phone surveys in Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Malawi, Nigeria, Tanzania and Uganda to routinely monitor the socio-economic impacts of shocks.
Initially motivated by the COVID-19 pandemic, high-frequency phone surveys have been rolled out rapidly since 2020 across low- and middle-income countries with limited experience with phone-based data collection.
The LSMS, with funding from the U.S. Agency for International Development and the Global Financing Facility, and in collaboration with the аIJʿª½± Poverty and Equity Global Practice (GP), is providing financial and technical assistance to longitudinal high-frequency phone surveys across Africa.
