The BASIS research program in El Salvador, established in 1997, analyzes the performace of financial, labor and land markets, in an effort to increase access of the poor to factor markets and sustainable livelihoods. In addition, the research agenda seeks to explain the dynamics of poverty and causes of resource degradation on hillsides. Work on innovation in rural lending strategies seeks to broaden access to financial services by the rural poor (for more details about  BASIS research click here).

Versions revised as of May 14, 2001.  The versions published previously omitted slight changes introduced before the survey.

-First National Rural Household Survey 1996:
                 Households with Land
                 Households without Land

- Second Rural Household Survey 1998:
                 Households with Land
                 Households without Land

- First Survey of Rural Clients of Financiera Calpiá 1998

- Third National Rural Household Survey 2000
  Second Survey of Rural Clients of   Financiera Calpiá 2000  
  Survey of Peri-urban and Urban Clients of Financiera Calpiá 2000 
  Survey of Rural, Peri-urban, Urban Clients of CAM/FINCA 2000 
  Survey of  Peri-urban and Urban Clients of BFA    2000
  (Single common questionnaire)

Code Manuals in pdf format (In Spanish).

              - Code Manual for Rural Household Survey 1995

               - Code Manual for Rural Household Survey 1997

               - Code Manual for Rural Calpiá Survey 1997

                -Code Manual for Single Questionnaire 2000, preliminary version.

Databases in Stata Format (version 7.0)

- First Rural Household Survey 1995, revised as of June 20th, 2001 

 - Second Rural Household Survey 1997, revised as of June 14th, 2001
- First Rural Calpiá Survey 1997, revised as of May 9th, 2002
- Third Rural Household Survey 1999, revised as of May 9th, 2002

- Second Rural Calpiá Survey 1999, revised as of December 15th, 2001

- Semi-Urban Calpiá Survey 1999, revised as of December 15th, 2001

- Urban Calpiá Survey 1999, revised as of December 15th, 2001 

Databases in Text Format (tab delimited)

This version of the databases can be easily read by any spreadsheet or statistical software.

First Rural Household Survey 1995

Second Rural Household Survey 1997

First Rural Calpiá Survey 1997

Third Rural Household Survey 1999

Second Rural Calpiá Survey 1999

Semi-Urban Calpiá Survey 1999

Urban Calpiá Survey 1999

Note- Please contact Alejandro Cañadas for more details about these databases, their differences with previous versions, and future updates. 

Basis Research Papers 
(see the Publications section)

Principal Investigator: Claudio Gonzalez-Vega