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Field interviewers for the 1986 LDHS

This post is part of a series commemorating 30 years of The DHS Program.

By Annie Cross

2013 Liberia DHS

The fact that Liberia is currently battling the Ebola crisis makes it harder to appreciate the fact that the recently released report on the 2013 Liberia Demographic and Health Survey (LDHS) showed improvement in most of the health-related indicators since the 2007 LDHS was carried out. I prefer to remember Liberia the way it was during the first DHS, before Ebola and before the civil war.

The 1986 LDHS was the first DHS in Africa and only the second worldwide. I was the country manager assigned to cover the survey. However, because we recruited interviewers from the local areas in which they would work and it was deemed too expensive to bring them all to one central place, we decided to hold two simultaneous training courses. I travelled the 6 hours to the town of Zwedru, while my boss (then Regional Coordinator, later DHS Director) Ann Way, was in charge of the training in Monrovia. Zwedru was a small quiet city and I was luck

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The Central Bank of Liberia (CBL) was established on October 18, 1999 by an Act of the National Legislature of the Republic of Liberia. It became functional in 2000 and succeeds the National Bank of Liberia (NBL). Mr. Elie E. Saleeby served as the Bank's first Executive Governor.

The principal objective of the CBL is to achieve and maintain price stability in the Liberian economy. To this end, it seeks to preserve the purchasing power of the national currency; promote internal and external equilibrium in the national economy; encourage the mobilization of domestic and foreign savings and their efficient allocation for productive economic activities; facilitate the emergence of financial and capital markets that are capable of responding to the needs of the national economy, and foster monetary, credit and financial conditions conducive to orderly, balance and sustain economic growth and development.

The powers of the Bank are vested in a Board of Governors, responsible for the formulation and implementation of policy. The Board consists of five Governors who are appointed by the

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Liberian dollar

Currency of Liberia

"L$" redirects here. For the virtual currency in Second Life, see Linden Dollar.

Subunit
A current $5 banknote
Code	LRD (numeric: 430)
Subunit	0.01
Symbol	$, L$, LD$‎
1⁄100	cent
Banknotes	L$5, L$10, L$20, L$50, L$100, L$500, L$1,000
Coins	5¢, 10¢, 25¢, 50¢, L$1, L$5, L$10^[1]
User(s)	Liberia
Central bank	Central Bank of Liberia
Website	cbl.org.lr
Inflation	7.7%
Source	The World Factbook, 2015 est.

The dollar (currency code LRD) has been the currency of Liberia since 1943. It was also the country's currency between 1847 and 1907. It is normally abbreviated with the sign $, or alternatively L$ or LD$ to distinguish it from other dollar-named currencies. It is divided into 100 cents.

First use

The first Liberian dollar was issued in 1847. It was pegged to the US dollar at par and circulated alongside the US dollar until 1907, when Liberia adopted the British West African pound, which was pegged to sterling.