Subject
The 123 surveys are the first national household surveys in the DRC focusing on Employment, the Informal Sector and Household Expenditures. The implementation of this survey took place in two stages: - first during the year 2004 in Kinshasa and covering all three phases, and a later implementation of the survey for all three phases at the national level within the remaining 10 provinces in 2005. The 123 survey shows different statistical populations at several levels: individuals, production units, households.
Each survey consists of three phases:
- Phase 1 Employment: The first phase of the survey is based on employment, unemployment and household activity conditions.
- Phase 2 Survey of the informal sector: The second phase is based on specific surveys of the heads of informal production units on their conditions of activity, their economic performance, the mode of insertion into the productive fabric as well as prospects.
- Phase 3 Survey of consumption, places of purchase and poverty: The third phase is a survey of household consumption. It aims to estimate the standard of living of households, to measure the weight of the formal and informal sectors in their consumption, and to analyze the determinants of the choice of different places of purchase.
Coverage
Surveys were implemented by the National Institute of Statistics in the DRC and covers a sample of 13,688 households in 2005 and 21,454 households in 2012.
Author
Surveys were implemented by the National Institute of Statistics in the DRC in cooperation with international partners (see Thontwa et.al. 2017 for details).
Access
Enquete 123 (2005):
You can find all relevant files and databases in SPSS and STATA including metadata files carrying all the codes, manuals and survey questionnaires by clicking here. For descriptive detail on the content of the metadata, please open the 'READ ME' file under the Metadata folder.
Enquete 123 (2012):
Relevant files and dataset in SPSS and STATA incuding metadata files with codes, manuals and survey questionnaires are available by clicking here. For a descriptive details on the content of the metadata, please open the 'READ ME' file under the Metadata folder.
Joint dataset (2005-2012)
In the framework of an ODI-financed project, we constructed a joint dataset containing household-level data of both 2015-2012 surveys. The dataset also allows to correct for errors in sampling between the two survey periods, and it includes a variable that provides for a coherent measure of well-being that corrects for differences in the cost of living between different price zones. It also imputes (differentiated) cost of housing to house owners. For details, see Marivoet, De Herdt & Ulimwengu 2018. You can download it here.