v1.1: Edited, anonymous dataset for public distribution.

2009-10

The Tanzania National Panel Survey (TZNPS) is the first in a series of nationally representative household panel surveys that assembles information on a wide range of topics including agricultural production, non-farm income generating activities, consumption expenditures, and a wealth of other socio-economic characteristics. The first year of the survey was conducted over twelve months from October 2008 to October 2009. It was implemented by the Tanzania National Bureau of Statistics (NBS). The second wave of the TZNPS is planned for fall 2010.

The main objective of the TZNPS is to provide high-quality household-level data to the Tanzanian government and other stakeholders for monitoring poverty dynamics, tracking the progress of the Mkukuta poverty reduction strategy, and evaluating the impact of other major, national-level government policy initiatives. As an integrated survey covering a wide range of socioeconomic factors, it compliments other more narrowly focused survey efforts such as the Demographic and Health Survey on health, the Integrated Labour Force Survey on labour markets, the Household Budget Survey on expenditure, and the National Sample Census of Agriculture. Secondly, as a panel household survey where households are revisited over time, the TZNPS allows for the study of poverty and welfare transitions and the determinants of living standard changes, rather than only cross-sectional statistics.

NBS was advised on technical issues related to survey design and implementation by the TZNPS Technical Committee, which included representatives from line ministries, government agencies and development partners, such as the Ministry of Agriculture, Food Security and Cooperatives, Ministry of Finance, Millennium Challenge Authority Tanzania, World Bank, DFID, UNICEF, UNFPA, and JICA. The first wave of the TZNPS was supported by several donors, including the World Bank, The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF), UNICEF, UNFPA, and the Royal Danish Embassy, as well as the Government of Tanzania through the pooled Mkukuta funding. NBS also received management and technical support from the LSMS Team in the Development Economics Research Group (DECRG) of the World Bank.

The TZNPS is part of the Living Standards Measurement Study-Integrated Surveys on Agriculture (LSMS-ISA), which supports governments in seven Sub-Saharan African countries to generate nationally representative, household panel data with a strong focus on agriculture and rural development.

This document describes all aspects of the TZNPS 2008/09, including the set of survey instruments, sample design, survey implementation, and the resulting data sets.

Sample survey data [ssd]

Household,Agricultural and Community