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People's Security Survey 2001

Ethiopia, 2001
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ETH_2001_PSS_v01_M
Producer(s)
International Labour Organisation (ILO), Forum for Social Studies (FSS), Miz-Hasab Research Center (MRC)
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  • Identification
  • Version
  • Scope
  • Coverage
  • Producers and sponsors
  • Sampling
  • Survey instrument
  • Data collection
  • Data Access
  • Disclaimer and copyrights
  • Contacts
  • Metadata production

    • Identification

    Survey ID number

    ETH_2001_PSS_v01_M
    Title

    People's Security Survey 2001
    Country
    Name Country code
    Ethiopia ETH
    Study type

    Other Household Survey [hh/oth]
    Series Information

    The People's Security Survey (PSS) is a household survey conducted by the International Labour Orgnaisation's (ILO) Social Security Department (SECSOC). The survey seeks to track the seven forms of work-related security comprising decent work, as well as highlighting people's aspirations and sense of social justice. Between 2000 and 2003, these surveys were conducted in 15 countries and in 2005 these were conducted in three countries: Namibia, Mozambique and Sri Lanka. Because the survey instrument was being developed during that time, and for budgetary reasons, the samples and survey design varied. In some countries, a national representative survey was conducted; in others, representative samples were drawn only from selected regions or from urban areas only.
    Abstract

    Insecurity is partly objective, partly subjective. To develop a strategy for reducing socio economic insecurity, it is necessary to consider both objective and subjective indicators of security. While it may be relatively easy to create objective indices of socio economic security, to create sound indicators that capture subjective elements of socio economic security, effort has to be made to find out what people in different parts of the world, from different social and demographic groups, perceive as the extent of their security or insecurity. It was with this purpose that IFPSES launched its PSS in mid 2000. The objective of the PSS is therefore to:

    • Provide an improved understanding of perceived needs of people for policies and institutional support to provide them with basic security.
    • Enable the creation of a Decent Work Index, which is crucial to ILO's work.
    • Provide important information that can be used to flag security concerns of workers in ILO
    • Reports and other documents.
    Kind of Data

    Sample survey data [ssd]
    Unit of Analysis

    Units of analysis in the survey include households and individuals

    Version

    Version Description

    Version 01: Edited, anonymised dataset for public distribution
    Version Date

    2003

    Scope

    Notes

    The surveys examine both objective and subjective elements of people's security. The questions probe the following:

    1. The socio-economic situation of the respondent and her/his household
    2. People's perceptions of insecurity and security
    3. Sources of socio economic insecurity for different social and demographic groups
    4. Actual knowledge with regard to policies
    5. Perceptions with regard to policies relating to socio economic security
    6. Coping mechanisms
    Topics
    Topic Vocabulary URI
    social welfare policy [15.1] CESSDA http://www.nesstar.org/rdf/common
    social welfare systems/structures [15.2] CESSDA http://www.nesstar.org/rdf/common

    Coverage

    Geographic Coverage

    The survey was conducted in the Ethiopian towns of Addis Ababa, Debre Zeit, Mojo and Nazareth
    Geographic Unit

    The data is at the level of city/town and kebele
    Universe

    The universe of the survey was household members aged 15-64

    Producers and sponsors

    Primary investigators
    Name
    International Labour Organisation (ILO)
    Forum for Social Studies (FSS)
    Miz-Hasab Research Center (MRC)

    Sampling

    Sampling Procedure

    The households in the sample were selected from residents of kebelles (kebelle is the lowest administrative unit in the country) in southern Addis Ababa, and kebelles in the area stretching 125 kms. east of the capital along the main Addis Ababa - Nazareth road. The kebelles were selected randomly, so too the households in each kebelle. The selection of the sample households was based on kebelle registers, which are supposed to contain a current list of residents in each kebelle. In the original study, 25 per cent of the households were from the rural areas and the rest were urban residents. The towns in which the survey was undertaken were Addis Ababa, Debre Zeit, Mojo and Nazareth. Of the total sample households, 40 per cent were from Addis Ababa.

    Survey instrument

    Questionnaires

    The PSS contain about 100 questions - some common to all respondents, and some to specific worker or social groups. A set of core questions are asked in all the PSS. In addition there are questions about specific issues that are important in the context of the country and/or the socio economic group that the PSS targets. The questionnaires are divided into sections by the seven types of securities that the IFP/SES monitors (except three Latin American surveys).

    In addition, there are sections on:

    • Background characteristics - these refer to a respondent's age, marital status and household characteristics.
    • Basic security - Basic security is analysed in these surveys in terms of access to adequate food, health care, shelter and access to water.
    • Social justice - these set of questions explore people's sense of social justice since these perceptions are closely linked to the sense of anxiety and distributive justice that underlies insecurity.

    Data collection

    Dates of Data Collection
    Start End
    2001-10 2001-11

    Data Access

    Access authority
    Name URL
    International Labour Organisation (ILO) http://www.ilo.org/dyn/sesame/pss.pss_files
    Access conditions

    Public use files, accessible to all
    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

    Example:

    International Labour Organisation. Ethiopia People's Security Survey 2001. Ref. ETH_2001_PSS_v01_M. Dataset downloaded from http://www.ilo.org/dyn/sesame/pss.pss_files 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.

    Contacts

    Contacts
    Name Affiliation Email URL
    SES Database - Global International Labour Organization bonnet@ilo.org http://www.ilo.org/dyn/sesame/SESHELP.pss_desc

    Metadata production

    DDI Document ID

    DDI_ETH_2001_PSS_v01_M
    Producers
    Name Affiliation Role
    DataFirst University of Cape Town DDI Producer
    Date of Metadata Production

    2012-03-05

    Metadata version

    DDI Document version

    Version 02 (August 2013). Edited version based on Version 01 DDI (ddi-eth-datafirst-pss-2001-v1) that was done by DataFirst.
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