Household Integrated Survey 2012
Georgia, 2012
Identification
GEO_2012_HIS_v01_M
Household Integrated Survey 2012
| Name | Country code |
|---|---|
| Georgia | GEO |
Income/Expenditure/Household Survey [hh/ies]
The Household Integrated Survey was introduced in Georgia in the second half of 1996 and has been carried out each year since then (on a quarterly basis). The survey was revised significantly in 2002. The State Department for Statistics of Georgia (SDS), following to a large extent unchanged poverty measurement methodology established in 1997, has regularly calculated and published poverty measurement results.
The Household Integrated Survey (HIS) in Georgia is conducted regularly from 1996 and has served to assess the level of consumption-based poverty since then. The HIS represents quarterly panel data. Each month 1/12 of the sample is refreshed.
Sample survey data [ssd]
- Households;
- Individuals.
Version
Version 01
2012
Scope
The scope of the Household Integrated Survey includes:
- Household Composition;
- Living conditions;
- Land Use;
- Expenditures;
- Transfers and Incomes from Property;
- Savings;
- Employment and Income from Employment.
Coverage
National coverage
The survey covers 13,404 households over the year. Each month 1/12 of the sample is refreshed (about 228 households are changed in 25 census units).
The survey covered all household members excluding persons fully supported by the state, for example persons staying in homes for the elderly and the disabled, children in public care institutions, prisoners and etc.
Producers and sponsors
| Name | Affiliation |
|---|---|
| The State Department for Statistics of Georgia | GEOSTAT |
| Name |
|---|
| The State Department for Statistics of Georgia |
Sampling
The Household Integrated Survey consists in quarterly interviewing households in Tbilisi and 9 Regions of Georgia:
- Kakheti;
- Tbilisi;
- Shida Kartli, including Mtskheta-Mtianeti1;
- Kvemo Kartli;
- Mtskheta-Mtianeti;
- Samtskhe-Javakheti;
- Adjara;
- Guria;
- Samegrelo;
- Imereti, including Racha-Lechkhumi and Kvemo Svaneti.
The sampling frame of households covers non-institutional part of the population. Those households are subject of observation which live at the sampled addresses. The sample size was selected so that various parameters could be estimated with satisfactory statistical precision not only on the level of the whole country but also on the level of the above listed regions.
When the data of the sample survey are expanded to the total population, each household included in the sample is given a statistical weighting which characterizes the total number of households represented by the selected household. The average value of basic weighting is 600 i.e. Each selected household is a representation of about 600 households.
The following factors are used for constructing a basic weighting:
- Probability of selecting each big city, small town and village council.
- Probability of selecting each constituency in big cities/small towns and the zone in village councils.
- Probability of selecting each household within the constituency and the zone included in the sample.
The inverse value of the product of the three probabilities is the basic weighting of a household.
Survey instrument
Household Integrated Survey 2012 Questionnaire consists of the following sections:
- Shinda01: General information about living conditions, housing, durables, etc. This section remained unchanged since the household survey was introduced in 1996.
- Shinda02: Household composition. This section also remained unchanged since the survey inception.
- Shinda03: Diary expenditure form. This section includes all diary expenditures during one week and it is filled out four times during the households' period of survey.
- Shinda04: Quarterly expenditures and agricultural activity form. This section covers quarterly expenditures on durables, energy supplies, health care, education, and other services. The questionnaire also collects information about harvest and processing of agricultural products produced by the household, sale and income from selling these products. The questionnaire is filled out four times, simultaneously with diary expenditures form. This section also features “reminder questions”, which help households remember their expenditures.
- Shinda05: Information about public and private transfers, as well as on changes in household financial and demographic conditions is collected in the section. The substance of the questions was not changed; however their phrasing was adjusted to make them more understandable for respondents.
- Shinda05-1: Includes information on employment and incomes from employment of adult household members.
- Shinda07: Refusal form. This section covers information on non-response or non-eligibility. This form helps correct the weights before data processing.
NOTE: "Shinda" - Georgian abbreviation for "Observation of Households”.
Data collection
| Start | End | Cycle |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 2012 | Quarterly |
| Name | Affiliation |
|---|---|
| The State Department for Statistics of Georgia | GEOSTAT |
Depositor information
| Name | Affiliation |
|---|---|
| Poverty - GP | World Bank Group |
Data Access
The use of the datasets must be acknowledged using a citation which would include:
- the identification of the Primary Investigator (including country name)
- the full title of the survey and its acronym (when available), and the year(s) of implementation
- the survey reference number
- the source and date of download (for datasets disseminated online)
Example:
The State Department for Statistics of Georgia. Georgia Household Integrated Survey (HIS) 2012, Ref. GEO_2012_HIS_v01_M. Dataset downloaded from [URL] on [date].
Disclaimer and copyrights
The user of the data acknowledges that the original collector of the data, the authorized distributor of the data, and the relevant funding agency bear no responsibility for use of the data or for interpretations or inferences based upon such uses.
Metadata production
DDI_GEO_2012_HIS_v01_M_WB
| Name | Affiliation | Role |
|---|---|---|
| Development Data Group | The World Bank | Documentation of the study |
| Poverty - GP | The World Bank | Documentation of the study |
2014-11-13
Metadata version
Version 01 (November 2014)