Monitoring
There are no well developed systems for collecting labor force, household, or income and expenditure data in
Myanmar. As a result, it is difficult to measure the impact of the crisis on the population. First, there are hardly any
recent data on labor markets, education, and health care that might shed some light on current socioeconomic
conditions throughout the country. Second, migrant workers who work in other countries send a large share of
their incomes home to their families, but many of them are illegal migrants who send these remittances in cash and
in other ways that cannot easily be tracked as formal capital inflows.