Social and Living Standards Measurement Survey 2006-2007, Public Use File
Pakistan, 2006 - 2007
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PAK_2006_PSLM_v01_M_v01_A_PUF
Social and Living Standards Measurement Survey 2006-2007
Public Use File
| Name | Country code |
|---|---|
| Pakistan | PAK |
Integrated Survey (non-LSMS) [hh/is]
Pakistan Social and Living Standards Measurement Survey (PSLM), 2006-07 is the third round of a series of surveys planned to be conducted up to 2009. The survey has been conducted with the aim to provide data for use by the government in formulating the poverty reduction strategy as well as development plans at district level and rapid assessment of programmes initiated under Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP) and Medium Term Development Framework (MTDF) in the overall context of MDGs.
The Pakistan Social and Living Standards Measurement Survey is one of the main mechanisms for monitoring the implementation of the MDGs and PRSP. It provides a set of representative, population-based estimates of social indicators and their progress under MDGs and PRSP. These include intermediate as well as ‘output’ measures, which assess what is being provided by the social sectors – enrolment rates in education, for example. They include a range of ‘outcome’ measures, which assess the welfare of the population Immunisation Rate, for example.
An important objective of the PSLM Survey is to try to establish what is the distributional impact of different government programs carried out in Social Sector. Policymakers need to know, for example, whether the poor have benefited from the programme or whether increased government expenditure on the social sectors has been captured by the better off.
Sample survey data [ssd]
- Individual
- Household
Scope
The scope of the Pakistan Social and Living Standards Measurement Survey 2006-2007 includes:
- Education
- Health
- Employment
- Ownership of Assets
- Detail of the Family
- Immunization and Diarrhoea (for under 5 year children)
- Pre and Post Natal Care
- Benefits from Services and Facilities.
Coverage
National, excluding military restricted areas
Villages
The universe of this survey consists of all urban and rural areas of the four provinces and Islamabad excluding military restricted areas.
Producers and sponsors
| Name | Affiliation |
|---|---|
| Federal Bureau of Statistics | Government of Pakistan |
| Name | Role |
|---|---|
| Government of Pakistan | Funding |
Sampling
Sampling Frame: Federal Bureau of Statistics has developed its own urban area frame, which was up-dated in 2003. Each city/town has been divided into enumeration blocks consisting of 200-250 households identifiable through sketch map. Each enumeration block has been classified into three categories of income groups i.e. low, middle and high keeping in view the living standard of the majority of the people. List of villages published by Population Census Organization obtained as a consequence of Population Census 1998 has been taken as rural frame.
Stratification Plan:
A. Urban Domain: Islamabad, Lahore, Gujranwala, Faisalabad, Rawalpindi, Multan, Bahawalpur, Sargodha, Sialkot, Karachi, Hyderabad, Sukkur Peshawar and Quetta, have been considered as large sized cities. Each of these cities constitutes a separate stratum and has further been sub-stratified according to low, middle and high-income groups. After excluding population of large sized city (s), the remaining urban population in each district in all the provinces has been grouped together to form a stratum.
B. Rural Domain: Each district in the four provinces of Pakistan has been treated an independent stratum.
Sample Size and Its Allocation: Keeping in view the objectives of the survey the sample size for the four provinces has been fixed at 73,953 households comprising 5,198 sample villages / enumeration blocks, which is expected to produce reliable results at each district.
Sample Design: A two-stage stratified sample design has been adopted in this survey.
Selection of Primary Sampling Units (PSUs): Villages and enumeration blocks in urban and rural areas respectively have been taken as Primary Sampling Units (PSUs). Sample PSUs have been selected from strata/sub-strata with PPS method of sampling technique.
Selection of Secondary Sampling Units (SSUs): Households within sample PSUs have been taken as Secondary Sampling Units (SSUs). A specified number of households i.e 16 and 12 from each sample PSU of rural & urban area have been selected respectively using systematic sampling technique with a random start.
Non-response in the entire survey is negligible
Please refer to the details of the Estimation Procedure presented as Annexure-I of Appendix A in the survey report.
Survey instrument
At both individual and household level, the PSLM Survey collects information on a wide range of topics using an integrated questionnaire. The questionnaire comprises a number of different sections, each of which looks at a particular aspect of household behaviour or welfare. Data collected under Round III include education, health, immunisation, diarrhoea, its treatment, and pre and post-natal care, housing conditions and access to basic services and amenities.
Data collection
| Start | End |
|---|---|
| 2006-10 | 2007-05 |
Supervisors and Teams from Headquarters check field work.
Data processing
Data quality in PSLM Survey has been ensured through built in system of checking of field work by the supervisors in the field as well as teams from the headquarters. Regional/ Field offices ensured the data quality through preliminary editing at their office level. The entire data entry was carried at the FBS headquarter Islamabad and the data entry programme used had a number of in built consistency checks.
Data Access
| Name | Affiliation | URL | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pakistan Bureau of Statistics | Government of Pakistan | www.pbs.gov.pk | pbs@pbs.gov.pk |
| Is signing of a confidentiality declaration required? | Confidentiality declaration text |
|---|---|
| yes | It will be ensured that the statistics supplied will not disclose in any way the identity and state of affairs of any individual, firm or institution in strict compliance of the General Statistics Act, 1975. |
Public Use Files
Use of the dataset must be acknowledged using a citation which would include:
- the Identification of the Primary Investigator
- the title of the survey (including acronym and year of implementation)
- the survey reference number
- the source and date of download
Example:
Federal Bureau of Statistics. Pakistan Social and Living Standards Measurement Survey (PSLM) 2006-07. Dataset downloaded from [url] on [date].
Disclaimer and copyrights
The user of the data acknowledges that the Federal Bureau of Statistics bears no responsibility for use of the data or for interpretations or inferences based upon such uses.
Contacts
| Name | Affiliation | |
|---|---|---|
| Pakistan Bureau of Statistics | Government of Pakistan | pbs@pbs.gov.pk |
Metadata production
DDI_PAK_2006_PSLM_v01_M_v01_A_PUF
| Name | Affiliation | Role |
|---|---|---|
| Development Economics Data Group | The World Bank Group | Documentation of the DDI |
2020-10-26
Metadata version
Version 01 (October 2020).