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Liberia Household Income and Expenditure Survey 2014

General Info

Original or alternative title 
Liberia - Household Income and Expenditure Survey 2014-2015
Provider 
World Bank
Microdata access: Register
Geography 
Liberia (LBR)
Coverage type 
Country
Time period covered 
January, 2014 - August, 2014
Series or system 
Liberia Household Income and Expenditure Survey
Data type
Survey: Cross-sectional - Household - Individual - Interview - Nationally representative - Urban-rural representative
Summary 

The Liberia Household Income and Expenditure Survey (HIES) was conducted in order to collect household-level data on health, water supply, crime, employment, education, sanitation, agricultural practices, and income. For the 2014 survey, a sample size of 8,360 households in 836 enumeration units was established but less than 50% of the target sample was covered due to the Ebola outbreak that year.

Keywords 
Absenteeism, Agriculture, Alcohol use, Assets, Birth certificates, Blood pressure, Breastfeeding, Burns, Cancers, Children, Cooking fuels, Coping behavior, Cough, Crops, Dairy products, Diabetes, Diarrhea, Dietary sodium, Disasters, Domestic migration, Education, Education access, Education expenditures, Electricity, Employment, Employment benefits, Ethnicity, Family composition, Family size, Fishing, Food expenditures, Fruits, Headache, Health care access, Health care costs, Health care expenditures, Health care use, Health facility conditions, Health insurance, Health status, Hospitals, Household air pollution, Household expenditures, Household water treatment, Housing materials, Income, Influenza, Insecticide-treated bednets, International migration, Legumes, Length of stay, Limited mobility, Literacy, Live births, Livestock, Loans, Lower respiratory infections, Malaria, Marital status, Mass media, Meat, Mental and behavioral disorders, Mental health symptoms, Milk, Nurses, Nuts, Occupation codes, Oral rehydration therapy, Parental survival, Personal health expenditures, Poisonings, Pregnancy, Prescriptions, Preventive interventions, Prices, Private social assistance, Public social assistance, Refrigeration, STDs, Sanitation, School enrollment, Sense organ diseases, Skilled birth attendants, Sore throat, Starchy vegetables, Sugar-sweetened beverages, Telephones, Tobacco, Tobacco smoking, Traditional healers, Training programs, Transportation, Tuberculosis, Typhoid and paratyphoid fevers, Unintentional injuries, Unprocessed red meat, Upper respiratory infections, Urinary tract infections, Vegetables, Violence, Vision loss, Vomiting, Water supply, Whole grains

Citation

Contributors 
Liberia Institute for Statistics and Geo-information Services (LISGIS)
Funders 
Government of Liberia
Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA)
United States Agency for International Development (USAID)
African Development Bank (AfDB)
World Bank
European Commission (EC)
Publisher 
World Bank
Suggested citation 
Liberia Institute for Statistics and Geo-information Services (LISGIS). Liberia Household Income and Expenditure Survey 2014. Washington DC, United States of America: World Bank.

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