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Laos Expenditure and Consumption Survey 2002-2003

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General Info
Provider 
Department of Statistics (Laos)
Tabulations only
Coverage type 
Country
Time period covered 
03/2002 - 02/2003
Series or system 
Laos Expenditure and Consumption Survey
Data type
Survey:
  • Household
  • Longitudinal
Summary 

This survey, also known as LECS, is conducted every five years. During the third survey 8,100 households were surveyed. Data was collected via a household questionnaire, a household diary, a time use questionnaire, a price questionnaire on prices for 92 basic goods and services, a village questionnaire, and a primary school questionnaire. Topics covered by these questionnaires included demographics, access to services, agriculture, economic conditions, education, the labor force, victimization, nutrition, child anthropometry, health, assets, housing conditions, businesses, expenditures, income, and finances.

Keywords 
Abortion, Agriculture, Antimalarials, Assets, Back and neck pain, Body mass index, Child anthropometry, Cooking fuels, Cough, Crime, Crops, Diarrhea, Diet, Disability, Education, Education access, Education expenditures, Electricity, Employment, Ethnicity, Family composition, Family size, Fever, Headache, Health care access, Health care personnel, Health care use, Health facilities, Health status, Height, Hospitals, Household air pollution, Household deaths, Household expenditures, Housing, Housing conditions, Housing materials, Immunization, Income, Insecticide-treated bednets, Intentional injuries, Leprosy, Literacy, Livestock, Loans, Malaria, Marital status, Measles, Musculoskeletal diseases, Neurological conditions, Occupations, Parents, Personal health expenditures, Place of delivery, Private health facilities, Public health facilities, Respiratory infections, Roads, Sanitation, School enrollment, Skin diseases, Socioeconomic risk factors, Telephones, Transportation, Unemployment, Unintentional injuries, Violence, Water supply, Weight, Abortive outcome
GHDx Entry last modified on: Mar 7, 2022