IOB Publications on National Household Surveys in the DRC

These are some recent working papers and publications touching upon different issues with national household surveys in the DRC: 

- National datasets on livelihoods in the DRC: precisely wrong or vaguely right? by Sarah K. Thontwa, Tom De Herdt, Wim Marivoet and John Ulimwengu, IOB Working Paper 2017.12.

- Navigating around the DRC’s statistical potholes: new estimates on welfare and poverty trends (2005-2012) following a spatially disaggregated approach by Wim Marivoet, Tom De Herdt and John Ulimwengu, IOB Working Paper 2018.02.

- Eviter les écueils statistiques de la RDC: nouvelles estimations sur les tendances du bien-être et de la pauvreté (2005-2012) selon une approche de désagrégation spatiale by Wim Marivoet, Tom De Herdt and John Ulimwengu, IOB Working Paper 2018.04.

Marivoet, W. and De Herdt,T. (2017). Tracing down real socio-economic trends from household data with erratic sampling frames: the case of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Journal of Asian and African Studies, 53(4), 532–552.

The article above uncovers the very volatile sampling frame used underneath all seven survey designs in the DRC which jeopardizes the reliability of the associated survey information and corresponding analysis. The article proposes a poststratification technique to retroactively control for these erratic variations in sampling frame in an attempt to identify real socio-economic trends.  You will also find the STATA format do-file containing all commands used to perform these corrections.