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Household Livelihood Survey×Sustainable Livelihoods Framework×
FieldDevelopment StudiesDevelopment Studies
FamilyProcess / pipelineProcess / pipeline
Year of origin20001998
OriginatorFrank Ellis; CIFOR Poverty Environment NetworkRobert Chambers & Gordon Conway; Ian Scoones; DFID
TypeMulti-source income and assets household surveyAnalytical framework for understanding livelihoods and poverty
Seminal sourceEllis, F. (2000). Rural Livelihoods and Diversity in Developing Countries. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN: 9780198296966Scoones, I. (1998). Sustainable Rural Livelihoods: A Framework for Analysis. IDS Working Paper 72. Institute of Development Studies, Brighton. link ↗
AliasesLivelihood survey, Household income survey, Rural livelihoods survey, Income and assets surveySLF, Sustainable Livelihoods Approach, SLA, DFID Livelihoods Framework
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SummaryA household livelihood survey is an instrument designed to capture the full portfolio of activities, income sources, assets, and expenditures through which a household secures its living. Rooted in the rural-livelihoods literature associated with Frank Ellis and in global comparative income studies such as the CIFOR Poverty Environment Network, it measures welfare and resilience by mapping the diversity of a household's economic activities — farming, wage labour, self-employment, environmental harvesting, transfers, and remittances — rather than reducing the household to a single income or consumption figure.The Sustainable Livelihoods Framework (SLF) is an analytical lens for understanding how poor households construct their livelihoods, drawing on five categories of capital assets within a vulnerability context that is mediated by institutions and policies. Crystallised by Robert Chambers and Gordon Conway and operationalised by Ian Scoones and the UK Department for International Development (DFID) in the late 1990s, it shifts development analysis from sector-by-sector or income-only views to a holistic, people-centred account of what people have, what they do with it, and what outcomes result.
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