The Fifth Integrated Household Living Survey (EICV5) was conducted from October 2016 to October 2017, and is designed to provide accurate and up-to-date information that are useful to government, analysts and the public as they seek to monitor and evaluate efforts to reduce poverty.

The data in this report come from the fifth Integrated Living conditions survey (EICV5), which interviewed 14,580 households, representing 64,314 people, throughout the country between late October 2016 and early October 2017.

The data collected covered a wide range of economic and socio-demographic variables. The focus of the report is on the measurement of poverty, and on the variables that are associated with poverty, which are presented in the form of a poverty profile.