Myanmar Subnational Phone Surveys (MSPS) of the World Bank
Myanmar subnational phone surveys (MSPS) are designed to monitor household wellbeing at the state and regional level. The first round of MSPS interviews were conducted between November 2022 to March 2023 and collected detailed information regarding labor market participation, education levels, consumption, migration, exposure to economic shocks and coping strategies. In this note, the author validates the representative properties of MSPS at the subnational level and address potential concerns about survey bias. The author also examines MSPS’ compatibility with other benchmark household surveys and provide evidence that vulnerable households that are generally overlooked in other telephonic surveys (low‐educated, poorer, female‐headed, migrant households) have been well‐represented in the MSPS’ survey sample. The author finds that 306 of 330 townships in Myanmar have been covered in MSPS, reflecting approximately 98 percent of the country’s population. Shares of demographic indicators at the state and regional levels - such as female population, female headed households, urban population, and age‐distribution - obtained from MSPS correspond closely with MLCS‐2017 survey. Moreover, the share of displaced populations in MSPS match closely with displacement estimates from UNHCR for the same period. MSPS also has significant representation of minority population based on religious and linguistic characteristics. Finally, the author finds that MSPS yields consistent estimates of education, asset ownership, consumption and labor market indicators when compared to IFPRI’s MHWS surveys. Overall, these result underscore the unbiased properties of MSPS surveys and show that these surveys provide reliable estimates of household wellbeing at the subnational level.
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| Language: | English |
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Washington, DC: World Bank
2023-06-05
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| Subjects: | PHONE SURVEY, SUBNATIONAL, PANDEMIC, SOCIO-ECONOMIC INDICATORS, |
| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099060523053037887/P179106053122a04508fcd015baf80eadf5 https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/39880 |
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| Summary: | Myanmar subnational phone surveys
(MSPS) are designed to monitor household wellbeing at the
state and regional level. The first round of MSPS interviews
were conducted between November 2022 to March 2023 and
collected detailed information regarding labor market
participation, education levels, consumption, migration,
exposure to economic shocks and coping strategies. In this
note, the author validates the representative properties of
MSPS at the subnational level and address potential concerns
about survey bias. The author also examines MSPS’
compatibility with other benchmark household surveys and
provide evidence that vulnerable households that are
generally overlooked in other telephonic surveys
(low‐educated, poorer, female‐headed, migrant households)
have been well‐represented in the MSPS’ survey sample. The
author finds that 306 of 330 townships in Myanmar have been
covered in MSPS, reflecting approximately 98 percent of the
country’s population. Shares of demographic indicators at
the state and regional levels - such as female population,
female headed households, urban population, and
age‐distribution - obtained from MSPS correspond closely
with MLCS‐2017 survey. Moreover, the share of displaced
populations in MSPS match closely with displacement
estimates from UNHCR for the same period. MSPS also has
significant representation of minority population based on
religious and linguistic characteristics. Finally, the
author finds that MSPS yields consistent estimates of
education, asset ownership, consumption and labor market
indicators when compared to IFPRI’s MHWS surveys. Overall,
these result underscore the unbiased properties of MSPS
surveys and show that these surveys provide reliable
estimates of household wellbeing at the subnational level. |
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