A severe El Niño event in 2015/16 decimated an important share of Papua New Guinea's (PNG) local crop production, leaving 10 per cent of the population with significant food shortages.

Papua New Guinea (PNG) is the country with the largest rural population share in the East Asia and Pacific region.

Conducting household surveys through face-to-face interviewing in rural Papua New Guinea is beset with difficulties and high costs.

This research note provides a description of the survey sample and implementation and reports on initial findings from analysis of the survey data.

Between May and July 2018, the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) implemented a household-level survey in four areas of PNG: the Autonomous Region of Bougainville (South Bougainville near Buin), Madang (Middle Ramu near Kwanga St