During 2011 SEDLAC will be improved and extended in the following directions:

1. Revising the statistics
A large-scale dataset like the SEDLAC implies a daily work of revising and controlling the construction of variables and statistics, identifying mistakes, and searching for more efficient ways of processing the data and presenting the statistics. It is not infrequent that while working with one survey we find a better way of defining a variable from the answers allowed by the questionnaire. In this case we revise all the surveys in that country to assess whether an improvement can be made in all Stata Do-files, and in turn in all the statistical tables. If deemed necessary, we replicate this process for all countries. In this way, this daily work on SEDLAC allows a constant improvement of the database. 

2. Adding household surveys
SEDLAC is intended to be an updated database of household surveys, so we try to rapidly obtain and process any new household survey available in the region.

3. Poverty profiles
We will include a poverty profile for each country in the database. A poverty profile characterizes the poor population in terms of demographic, education, labor, housing, and income variables, among other relevant dimensions.

4. Health statistics
A section on health variables constructed from microdata of household surveys will be included. That section will have information on health insurance coverage, pregnancy and birth, vaccination, illness, visits to doctors, hospitalizations and medicines.