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Household Socio-Economic Survey 2007-2008

Mongolia, 2007 - 2008
Reference ID
MNG_2007_SES_v01_M
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National Statistical Office (NSO)
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Apr 12, 2012
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    Survey ID number

    MNG_2007_SES_v01_M

    Title

    Household Socio-Economic Survey 2007-2008

    Subtitle

    An improved version of the Household Income and Expenditure Survey

    Country
    Name Country code
    Mongolia MNG
    Study type

    Socio-Economic/Monitoring Survey [hh/sems]

    Series Information

    The HSES 2007/08 is an improved version of the Household Income and Expenditure Survey (which had been conducted regularly since 1966) and was carried out between July 2007 and June 2008. It is the lat­est among other household surveys implemented by the NSO to evaluate the living standards of the Mon­golian population such as the Assessment of the Living Standards of the Population of Mongolia, 1995; the Living Standards Measurement Survey, 1998; and the Household Income and Expenditure Survey/Liv­ing Standards Measurement Survey, 2002/03. The HSES is a permanent survey and every three years it will feature an extended version. This will not only allow monitoring poverty and living standards annually but also to capture additional information in order to help the government to design better policies.

    Abstract

    The Mongolian NSO has implemented a series of household surveys designed to measure the socio-economic situation in the country, estimate the main poverty indicators, and measure progress towards the MDGs. These surveys were fielded in 1995, 1998, and 2002-03.

    The most recent survey was fielded in 2002-03. This survey integrated the Household Income and Expenditure Survey (HIES) with Living Standards Measurement Study (LSMS) features to provide more thorough and complete analyses. The LSMS portion of the survey was administered to a sub-sample of all of the households that participated in the HIES. The total sample of the HIES was 11,232 households equally distributed over four quarters of one year (February 2002 through January 2003). The LSMS portion was administered to one-third of the households from the HIES. Households interviewed for the HIES in the first and second quarters were re-interviewed for the LSMS in March and April 2003, and households interviewed for the HIES in the third and fourth quarters were re-interviewed for the LSMS in May through July 2003. In total, 3,308 households were included in the LSMS subsample.

    The 2007 Socio-Economic Survey (SES07) was designed to be comparable to the HIES-LSMS 2002-03 and to be a template for future efforts. In the future, the annual HIES will no longer be implemented, but rather will be replaced with the periodic HIES-LSMS survey.

    Kind of Data

    Sample survey data [ssd]

    Unit of Analysis
    • Households
    • Individuals
    • Consumption Expenditure Commodities / Items
    • Communities

    Scope

    Notes

    The 2007-2008 Household Socio-Economic Survey covered the following topics:

    HOUSEHOLD

    • Household Identification Particulars and Geographic Identification / Location
    • Household Demographic Characteristics / Household Roster
    • Education
    • Health
    • Reproductive Health (for women aged 15-49 years)
    • Migration
    • Jobs in Last 12 Months
    • Wage Jobs
    • Job Search
    • Agricultural Production
    • Non-farm Household Enterprises
    • Other Income
    • Savings and Loan
    • Housing and Energy
    • Durables Goods
    • Non-food Expenditure and Consumption (last month / last 12 months)
    • Purchases of Food during the Past Months (recall - urban households)
    • Consumption of Food and Other Frequently Purchased Commodities (from diary- urban households)
    • Consumption of Food during the Past 7 Days (recall - rural households)

    COMMUNITY

    • Population and Households (demographics of the community)
    • Economy and Infrastructure
    • Education
    • Health
    • Agriculture and Livestock
    • Non-Agricultural Business

    PRICE

    • Price
    Topics
    Topic Vocabulary URI
    consumption/consumer behaviour [1.1] CESSDA http://www.nesstar.org/rdf/common
    economic conditions and indicators [1.2] CESSDA http://www.nesstar.org/rdf/common
    unemployment [3.5] CESSDA http://www.nesstar.org/rdf/common
    working conditions [3.6] CESSDA http://www.nesstar.org/rdf/common
    employment [3.1] CESSDA http://www.nesstar.org/rdf/common
    basic skills education [6.1] CESSDA http://www.nesstar.org/rdf/common
    general health [8.4] CESSDA http://www.nesstar.org/rdf/common
    housing [10.1] CESSDA http://www.nesstar.org/rdf/common
    land use and planning [10.2] CESSDA http://www.nesstar.org/rdf/common
    SOCIAL STRATIFICATION AND GROUPINGS [12] CESSDA http://www.nesstar.org/rdf/common
    fertility [14.2] CESSDA http://www.nesstar.org/rdf/common
    migration [14.3] CESSDA http://www.nesstar.org/rdf/common

    Coverage

    Geographic Coverage

    National

    Geographic Unit

    Mongolia is divided into 21 aimags. Ulaanbaatar is the capital city and is subdivided into 9 districts, 121 khoroos and 1,035 khesegs. Each kheseg has approximately 200 households. The rest of the country is divided into soums and bags. One of the soums in each aimag is normatively considered as the aimag center, while the others are regarded as the rural area. Darkhan-Uul and Orkhon were the only two aimags were 24 bags were selected.

    Universe
    • Households (defined as a group of persons who usually live and eat together)
    • Household members (defined as members of the household who usually live in the household, which may include people who did not sleep in the household the previous night, but does not include visitors who slept in the household the previous night but do not usually live in the household)

    Producers and sponsors

    Primary investigators
    Name Affiliation
    National Statistical Office (NSO) Government of Mongolia
    Producers
    Name Affiliation Role
    World Bank, Mongolia WB Technical assistance
    Funding Agency/Sponsor
    Name Role
    The World Bank Funding of survey implementation

    Sampling

    Sampling Procedure

    The sampling frame of the HSES was devel­oped by the NSO based on population figures for 2005 from local registration offices. This updated sampling frame is crucial because the spatial distribution of the population had changed dramati­cally over the last years and any frame based on the Census 2000 would have not been relevant anymore.

    The design of the survey recognizes three ex­plicit strata: Ulaanbaatar, aimag centers, and ru­ral areas and small towns. In addition, the sample was implicitly allocated by districts and khoroos in Ulaanbaatar, and by aimags in rural areas. Each aimag center was an explicit sub-stratum. The aimag of Govisumber was excluded from the sample due to its small size.

    The selection strategy was different in each stratum: a two-stage process in urban areas and a three-stage process in rural areas. In Ulaanbaatar, first 360 khesegs were selected, and then 10 households in each kheseg. In aimag centers, first 12 or 24 bags were selected, and then 10 house­holds in each bag.35 In rural areas, first 52 soums were selected, then 12 bags in each soum and fi­nally 8 households in each bag. All 1,248 primary sampling units or clusters (khesegs, bags or soums) were selected with probability proportional to size and were randomly allocated into the 12 months of survey fieldwork. Thus the survey visited a ran­dom sub-sample of 104 clusters each month.

    The use of this sampling procedure means that households living in different areas of the coun­try have been selected with different probabilities. Therefore, in order to obtain representative sta­tistics for each stratum and for the whole coun­try, it is necessary to use sampling weights. These weights are applied to each household and cor­respond to the inverse of the probability of selec­tion, calculated taking into account the sampling strategy.

    The sample of 11,232 households was allocated as follows: 3,600 in Ulaanbaatar, 2,640 in aimag centers and 4,992 in rural areas and small towns. However, the actual sample used for this report is slightly lower: 3,571 households in Ulaanbaatar, 2,621 in aimag centers, and 4,980 in rural areas and small towns. The difference corresponds to 60 households that were excluded because they did not have complete information.

    Survey instrument

    Questionnaires

    Four questionnaires were used to collect information for the 2007-2008 SES:

    • Household Questionnaire
    • Diary Questionnaire (for recording household food consumption in urban households)
    • Community Questionnaire
    • Price Questionnaire

    Data collection

    Dates of Data Collection
    Start End
    2007-07-01 2008-07-01
    Data Collectors
    Name Affiliation
    National Statistical Office Parliamnet of Mongolia
    Data Collection Notes

    The overall data quality is to be considered of good standard. On the one hand, the large amounts of information that the HSES collects from households imposed new demands on op­erational strategies and data management com­pared to the previous HIES.

    Data processing

    Data Editing

    All procedures were streamlined and centralized, which is likely to have had a positive impact on the quality of the infor­mation. On the other hand, three different rounds of consistency checks were applied to the data: first during the data entry process, then during the compilation of the raw data files and finally during the preparation of this report. In all cases it was possible to compare these listings against the actual questionnaires filled out by the households (and at least during the first round of checks, some households were visited again) and the data were amended whenever a mistake was found.Databases for the HSES 2007/08 have been unified and data error checking was made (by using STATA program) in cooperation with working group.

    Data Access

    Access authority
    Name Affiliation URL Email
    Head, Population and Social Statistical Department National Statistical Office http://www.nso.mn/v3/index2.php oyunchimeg@nso.mn
    Confidentiality
    Is signing of a confidentiality declaration required? Confidentiality declaration text
    yes Users of the data agree to keep confidential all data contained in these datasets and to make no attempt to identify, trace or contact any individual whose data is included in these datasets.
    Access conditions

    Survey datasets are distributed at no cost for legitimate academic research, with the condition that we receive an abstract or a detailed description of any research project that will be using the data prior to authorizing their distribution. Once received, the datasets must not be passed on to other researchers without the written consent of either NSO or World Bank. Copies of all reports and publications based on the requested data must be sent to NSO and World Bank.

    Requests for access to the datasets may be made through the website http://www.nso.mn/v3/index2.php

    Citation requirements

    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

    Disclaimer and copyrights

    Disclaimer

    The National Statistical Office of Mongolia and World Bank provide these data to external users without any warranty or responsibility implied. They accept no responsibility for the results and/or implications of any actions resulting from the use of these data.

    Contacts

    Contacts
    Name Affiliation Email URL
    Head, Data processing and Technology Department National Statistical Office tserenkhand@nso.mn http://www.nso.mn/v3/index2.php

    Metadata production

    DDI Document ID

    DDI_MNG_2007_SES_v01_M

    Producers
    Name Affiliation Role
    Tsolmon Tserendejid NSO Documentation of the study
    Date of Metadata Production

    2010-04-08

    Metadata version

    DDI Document version

    Version 01: Adopted from "DDI-MNG-NSO-EN-HSES-200708-v1.0" DDI that was done by metadata producer mentioned in "Metadata Production" section.

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