Household Expenditure and Consumption Survey 1994-1995
Subtitle
Household Budget Survey III
Country
Name
Country code
Lesotho
LSO
Study type
Income/Expenditure/Household Survey [hh/ies]
Kind of Data
Sample survey data [ssd]
Unit of Analysis
- Households
- Individuals
Scope
Notes
The 1994-1995 Lesotho Household Expenditure and Consumption Survey covered the following topics:
- Household Identifiers Particulars
- Household Composition and Demographic Characteristics
- Housing Characteristics
- Possession and Access to Facilities
- Source of Income
- Living and Environment Condition Index
Coverage
Geographic Coverage
National
Producers and sponsors
Primary investigators
Name
Bureau of Statistics
Sampling
Sampling Procedure
Multi-stage stratified random sample. Sample size is 4850 households.
There are 120 enumeration areas. 25 from Maseru urban, 15 from other urban and 80 rural. 425 housholds were covered each month for an estimated number of 5100. However, only 4850 records were captured. Expenditure was entered in diaries on a daily basis and were followed by frequent visits by the enumerators.
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 country, acronym and year of implementation)
- the survey reference number
- the source and date of download
Example:
Lesotho Bureau of Statistics. Lesotho Household Expenditure and Consumption Survey 1994-1995. Ref. LSO_1994_HECS_v01_M. Dataset downloaded from [website/source] on [date].
Disclaimer and copyrights
Disclaimer
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.