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Labour Force and Households Living Conditions Survey 2014 (LFLCS) in Lebanon - Final Evaluation
- eval_number:
- 2425
- eval_url:
- https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/eval/2425
- lessons_learned:
- themes:
- theme:
- Data collection & analysis
- category:
- Organizational issues
- comments:
- Policy makers, Program developers and researchers.
- challenges:
- Data gaps in the survey questionnaire.
- success:
- A survey file with labor force and living condition information is available for the first time in Lebanon.
- context:
- Understanding the needs of the users and sponsoring agencies for data is crucial for the relevance of a project such as the LFHLCS.
- description:
- The conceptualization of any survey is an essential and elaborate process during where the objectives of the survey are clearly defined. The Evaluation finds that the extent of this process was deficient. ILO specialists and data users such as UN agencies were not invited to take part in the stage of the project development. To establish the survey objectives, survey designers should begin with a set of questions to which the organization(s) sponsoring the survey and stakeholders would like to have answers. Given limited resources and limits on the time of survey respondents, any data that do not serve the objectives of the survey should not be collected.
Some questions are difficult to answer because they ask not only what is happening but also why it is happening. Yet, these are often the most important questions because they seek to understand the impact of current policies or programmes, and perhaps even hypothetical future policies or programmes, on the circumstances and characteristics of households. Economists and other social scientists do not always agree on how to answer these questions, and sometimes they may not even agree that it is possible to answer a particular question. If such questions are important to the data users, survey designers will need to do very thorough planning and managers will need to balance the budgets, capacity limitation and other constraints to determine priorities for policy making and program development.
- administrative_issues:
- CAS and ILO need to work with the potential users of the data, policy makers and program developers at the conceptualization stage of any survey.
- url:
- https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/lessons/212670
- location:
- country:
- Lebanon
- region:
- Arab States
- eval_title:
- Labour Force and Households Living Conditions Survey 2014 (LFLCS) in Lebanon - Final Evaluation
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