Interviewer instructions
9.1 & 9.2 Travel expenses
NOTE: For each household member who has had an overseas or domestic trip in the last 12 months, expenditure amounts (or estimates) are required for expenses paid by the household.
- Domestic travel: This refers to any travel from one state to another, as well as any significant travel within a state which involves a flight or boat trip
- Include:
- amounts paid for trips taken in the last 12 months;
- private expenditure abroad including any trips paid for by family overseas.
- Include: Payments made by household members for relatives overseas to travel to the Republic of Palau and visit them.
- Do not include: Overseas trips paid for by the Government of the Republic of Palau or other regional or international organisations. If, however „private? expenditure occurred during any such trip then record that expenditure.
- Transport costs: If possible ask respondents to record separately expenditure on different types of public transport (e.g. airfares, car hire), using the respondent?s best estimates if necessary.
- Other expenses: Include expenses by the respondent on clothing, medical goods and services, household items, even though these should also be recorded in the appropriate sections of the expenditure questionnaire.
