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Sociology 699J: Surveys in Developing Countries  

Indonesian Family Life Surveys

The Indonesia Family Life Survey (IFLS) is a three-wave panel study begun in 1993. Individual and family level data include Extensive community, school, and health facility data accompany the household data.

Wave 1 covers a sample of 7,224 households spread across 13 provinces that encompass approximately 83 percent of the Indonesian population. Village leaders and heads of the village women's group provided information in each of the 321 enumeration areas from which households were drawn, and data were collected from 6,385 schools and health facilities serving community residents. IFLS2 followed up with the same sample four years later, in 1997-1998. One year after IFLS2, a 25% subsample was surveyed to provide information about the impact of Indonesia's economic crisis. IFLS3, which will follow all IFLS households, is scheduled for fielding in 2000.

The documentation for the first two waves includes:

IFLS has been a collaborative effort of RAND, UCLA, and the Demographic Institute of the University of Indonesia (LDUI). Funding for IFLS2 was provided by the National Institute on Aging (NIA), the National Institute for Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), U. S. Agency for International Development (USAID), The Futures Group (POLICY Project), the Hewlett Foundation, the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), John Snow International (the OMNI project), and the World Health Organization. MACRO International developed the data-entry software and had responsibility for some of the data processing.

The web pages for the IFLS are: http://www.rand.org/labor/FLS/IFLS/

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Last updated September 13, 2003
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