{"video_description":{"idno":"VDO_005","title":"Advancing Gender Equality through Household Surveys: Living Standards Measurement Study\u2013Plus (LSMS+)","date_published":"2021-05-04","description":"Every single data point has a human story. With support from the World Bank's Living Standards Measurement Study Plus (LSMS+) Program, countries as Cambodia are implementing a new generation of household surveys with improved methods to capture key dimensions of men\u2019s and women\u2019s economic opportunities and welfare.","genre":"Documentary","main_entity":"World Bank","content_reference_time":"2021","languages":[{"name":"English","code":"EN"}],"creator":"World Bank","video_url":"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=87EiYes9p3s","embed_url":"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/87EiYes9p3s","duration":"PT8M13S","transcript":[{"language":"English","text":"0:36\nacross the developing world women lag\n0:38\nbehind\n0:39\nin labor force participation in\n0:42\nemployment\n0:43\nin earnings we observe that social and\n0:46\nlegal norms\n0:47\ncan be barriers to women's ownership of\n0:50\nassets\n0:51\nand segment them into lower productivity\n0:53\njobs\n0:55\nif half of the population is suffering\n0:58\nfrom gender inequities\n0:59\nin economic and social life it will be\n1:02\nimpossible to end poverty as a whole\n1:06\none of the lessons that we've learned\n1:08\nthroughout 40 years of experience as\n1:10\npart of the lsms\n1:11\nis that not every survey every data set\n1:14\nis created equal\n1:17\nif the right data are not collected at\n1:19\nall or are collected by in a biased or a\n1:22\nnon-representative way\n1:24\nthe resulting policies may be flawed\n1:27\nsolutions to raising living standards\n1:31\nand ultimately to eliminate gender\n1:33\ninequality\n1:34\nare only possible if we have the right\n1:38\ndata\n1:43\ncambodia unquestionably has recorded\n1:46\nremarkable progress in reducing poverty\n1:49\nover the last\n1:50\ntwo decades but this doesn't mean that\n1:52\nthe ability of people\n1:54\nto meet their basic needs in terms of\n1:57\nfood clothing\n1:58\nshelter access to basic services is the\n2:01\nsame across the country\n2:03\nparticularly among women there's work to\n2:05\nbe done\n2:07\nwe're here in cambodia to support the\n2:09\nnational institute of statistics\n2:12\nto conduct the living standards\n2:13\nmeasurement study plus surveying\n2:31\nthe ultimate goal is to improve the\n2:34\nquality of life of people\n2:36\nall people but policy making process\n2:40\nneeds data what makes lsms plus\n2:44\ndifferent\n2:44\nis that we're supporting a new\n2:46\ngeneration of\n2:47\nnational surveys conducted by national\n2:50\nstatistical offices\n2:51\nto obtain information from adults\n2:55\nin private interviews as opposed to\n2:57\nrelying on other individuals in the same\n2:59\nhouseholds to provide information\n3:01\non behalf of these individuals\n3:04\nwhen the lcms first came into existence\n3:07\nwe typically interview\n3:08\nthe household head who is the\n3:10\nself-identified most knowledgeable\n3:11\nperson in the household and in most\n3:13\ncountries that person is typically going\n3:14\nto be male\n3:15\nand what we found is that men answer\n3:17\nthese questions very differently than\n3:19\nwomen would when asked the same\n3:20\nquestions\n3:21\nwe need to change the culture of\n3:23\nhousehold survey data collection\n3:25\nin a way that collects more gender\n3:27\nsensitive data\n3:28\nand that is the key message we're trying\n3:31\nto communicate\n3:32\nwith a program like the lsms plus\n3:46\n[Music]\n3:49\nyou know the enumerators are really the\n3:51\nfoot soldiers in a household survey so\n3:53\nthey're the ones that are actually out\n3:54\nthere traveling to households sitting\n3:56\nwith a respondent for as many hours as\n3:58\nit takes to collect the best information\n4:00\nfrom a respondent\n4:01\non their livelihood and well-being\n4:04\nwe get these different urban versus\n4:06\nrural settings that we're working in and\n4:07\nthey have different challenges that they\n4:09\nface\n4:10\num different day-to-day lives right so\n4:12\nif we want to find the best solutions\n4:14\nfor everyone\n4:15\nin cambodia then we need to visit people\n4:17\nin both places\n4:20\nthe principal challenge of working in an\n4:22\nurban environment like the phnom penh\n4:24\nand trying to schedule interviews is to\n4:26\naccommodate people's busy\n4:28\nschedules\n4:31\ncompared to the big city life in the\n4:33\ncountryside happens at a slower pace\n4:44\nthe challenges of working in rural areas\n4:45\nare different\n4:47\nit takes more time and effort to get to\n4:49\nour destinations\n4:50\nbecause often the road infrastructure is\n4:52\nless than ideal\n4:54\nagriculture is a big part of rural lives\n4:56\nso we have to schedule our interviews\n4:58\naround the schedule of agricultural\n5:01\n[Music]\n5:08\nactivities\n5:11\nan interview begins by an enumerator\n5:13\nexplaining\n5:14\nthe purpose of that survey in the case\n5:16\nof the lsms plus\n5:18\nwe then proceed with a household\n5:20\ninterview\n5:21\nfollowed by individual interviews with\n5:24\nadult household members in private\n5:27\nabout education health employment\n5:30\nownership of assets\n5:31\nsuch as parcels financial assets\n5:38\nin lsms plus we use male interviewer to\n5:41\ninterview a male respondent and female\n5:44\ninterviewer to interview\n5:46\na female responder the reason is because\n5:48\nsome questions\n5:51\nthe respondent did not want to respond\n5:53\nto\n5:54\nthose who have not the same gender so\n5:57\nthat is the good way\n5:58\nin order to capture so much better\n6:00\n[Music]\n6:04\ninformation\n6:06\n[Music]\n6:28\nyou know i'm very proud of the fact that\n6:30\nthis country is the first country\n6:32\nin asia which has been selected for\n6:35\nan sms plus project i sincerely hope\n6:38\nthat\n6:39\nthe outcome the result of this project\n6:42\nwould provide some good example for the\n6:44\nother country in the region\n6:56\n[Music]\n7:14\nthink that improving the opportunity of\n7:17\nwomen\n7:18\nin cambodia would help brighten cambodia\n7:21\nin the future as the father i always\n7:23\nlike\n7:24\nthink about the futures of my three\n7:27\nchildren i want them to live in a better\n7:29\ncondition\n7:32\nto living in a better cambodia\n7:36\nevery single data point has a human\n7:38\nstory\n7:40\nour goal is for these data to reflect as\n7:43\naccurately as possible\n7:44\nthe stories of our respondents cambodian\n7:47\npeople\n7:48\nsuch that the governments can design\n7:50\npolicies that improve\n7:52\neveryone's lives"}]},"schematype":"video","resources":[]}