Integrated Household Survey (IHS)
The IHS is a household panel including over 10,000 households across Malawi. Households were sampled from listing information and cartography from the Malawi Population and Housing Census, which includes information on the three major regions of Malawi (North, Center, and South), and was stratified into rural and urban strata.
Study design
Household panel
Number of participants at first data collection
10,698 (households)
Recruitment is ongoing
Age at first data collection
Varied (participants)
Participant year of birth
Varied (participants)
Participant sex
All
Representative sample at baseline?
No
Sample features
Country
Year of first data collection
1997
Primary Institutions
Ministry of Economic Planning and Development (Unduna wa Kukonza Chuma ndi Kukula Kwachuma, MoEPD)
National Statistical Office of Malawi (Ofesi ya Dziko ya Ziwerengero)
World Bank Group
Profile paper DOI
Funders
Government of Malawi (Boma la Malawi)
Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC)
World Bank
Ongoing?
Yes
Data types collected
- Interview – face-to-face
- None
- None
- None
Engagement
Keywords
Consortia and dataset groups
