Education, Vulnerability, and Resilience after a Natural Disaster

The extent to which education provides protection in the face of a large-scale natural disaster is investigated.

Thursday, 11/07/2013

Indonesia: Urban Poverty and Program Reviews

In mid-2011, SurveyMETER was involved in the Urban PNPM Evaluation Study or the Urban Poverty Program (UPP) at the recommendation of the RAND Corpo

Wednesday, 24/04/2013

Mental health in Sumatra after the tsunami

We assessed the levels and correlates of posttraumatic stress reactivity (PTSR) of more than 20,000 adult tsunami survivors by analyzing survey data from coastal Aceh and North Sumatra, Indonesia.

Monday, 10/01/2011

Cutting the costs of attrition: Results from the Indonesia Family Life Survey

Attrition is the Achilles heel of longitudinal surveys. Drawing on our experience in the Indonesia Family Life Survey, we describe survey design and field strategies that contributed to minimizing attrition over four waves of the survey.

Thursday, 06/01/2011

Causal effect of health on labor market outcomes: Experimental evidence

Iron deficiency is widespread throughout the developing world. We provide new evidence on the effect of iron deficiency on economic and social prosperity of older adults drawing on data from a random assignment treatment-control design intervention.

Wednesday, 05/01/2011

Iron deficiency and the well-being of older adults: Early results from a randomized nutrition intervention

Iron deficiency is widespread throughout the developing world. We provide new evidence on the effect of iron deficiency on economic and social prosperity of older adults drawing on data from a random assignment treatment-control design intervention.

Tuesday, 04/01/2011

Contraceptive Use in a Changing Service Environment: Evidence from the First Year of Indonesia’s Economic Crisis

Since the 1970s many developing countries have launched large-scale efforts to provide couples with family planning services.

Monday, 03/01/2011

Contraceptive Use in a Changing Service Environment: Evidence from the First Year of Indonesia’s Economic Crisis

Since the 1970s many developing countries have launched large-scale efforts to provide couples with family planning services.

Wednesday, 08/12/2010

Health, Family Planning and Well-being in Indonesia during an Economic Crisis: Early results from the Indonesian Family Life Survey

The results reported in this paper are preliminary. This study is based on data from two rounds of the Indonesian Family Life Survey (IFLS2/2+), a project of RAND, in collaboration with UCLA and the Demographic Institute of the University of Indonesia. We are grateful to William Emmett, the POLICY Project, who supported the broader project in its early stages.

Tuesday, 07/12/2010

Nutritional Status in Indonesia: Evidence from the 1993 Indonesian Family Life Survey

The authors use data from the Indonesian Family Life Survey (IFLS) to examine patterns of height and weight among Indonesians of all ages. The heights attained by adults have increased dramatically over the last half century.

Monday, 06/12/2010

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