Consumption Expenditure Survey - 2003 Livelihood System of Rural Household Survey

1) Measuring living standard of all households in the four sample villages using the state of the art consumption expenditure survey instrument (IRRI had never done such survey in the Philippines because IRRI had traditionally relied exclusively on household income, rather than consumption expenditure, as the measure of living standard/household welfare.); 2) Characterizing basic patterns of household consumption expenditures; 3) Analyzing economic mobility and poverty dynamics during 1996 and 2003; 4) Exploring potential consequences of sample attrition (due to migration) in panel data analysis using a module tracking outmigrants; and 5) Obtaining a base-line data for any future studies on changes in living standard in the sample villages.