MECOVI : Improving the Survey and Measurement of Living Conditions in Latin America and the Caribbean

MECOVI : Improving the Survey and Measurement of Living Conditions in Latin America and the Caribbean

The MECOVI program --short for "Programa para el Mejoramiento de las Encuestas de Hogares y la Medicion de Condiciones de Vida", a Spanish acronym for the Regional Program for Improvement of the Surveys and Measurement of the Living Condi...

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Main Authors:	Moncada, Gilberto, Lee, Haeduck
Format:	Brief
Language:	English
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2012
Subjects:	BENEFICIARIES BUDGET ALLOCATIONS CAPACITY BUILDING CENSUSES CENTRAL AMERICAN COUNTRY LEVEL COUNTRY OWNERSHIP DATA ENTRY DECISION MAKING DEVELOPMENT PROCESS DEVELOPMENT STRATEGIES ECONOMIC ACTIVITIES EMPLOYMENT ETHNIC GROUP FINANCIAL SUPPORT GEOGRAPHICAL COVERAGE HOUSEHOLD INCOME HOUSEHOLD LEVEL HOUSEHOLD SURVEY HOUSEHOLD SURVEYS HOUSING INCREASED DEMAND LABOR FORCE LATIN AMERICAN LIVING CONDITIONS LONG TERM NATIONAL LEVEL PARTNERSHIP PERIODIC SURVEYS POVERTY ANALYSIS POVERTY MEASUREMENT POVERTY REDUCTION PRIVATE SECTOR PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS PUBLIC POLICY QUALITY CONTROL QUESTIONNAIRES RESOURCE ALLOCATION SHORT TERM SOCIAL CONDITIONS SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT STATISTICAL OFFICE STATISTICAL OFFICES STATISTICAL SYSTEMS SURVEY DATA SURVEY MODULES TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE TRANSPARENCY
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2005/02/6103854/mecovi-improving-survey-measurement-living-conditions-latin-america-caribbean http://hdl.handle.net/10986/10339

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Summary:	The MECOVI program --short for "Programa para el Mejoramiento de las Encuestas de Hogares y la Medicion de Condiciones de Vida", a Spanish acronym for the Regional Program for Improvement of the Surveys and Measurement of the Living Conditions in Latin America and the Caribbean.--was launched in 1996, as a joint initiative of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), the World Bank, and the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (UN-ECLAC). It was driven by the need to improve the statistical knowledge base on household poverty and living conditions at the household level in the region. The program has two principal components: (1) activities at the country level; and (2) regional activities (training, workshops and organization of the household survey database).