Pacific Living Condition Survey
Vanuatu, 2012 - 2013
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Identification
Survey ID Number
VUT_2012_VHS_v01_M
Title
Pacific Living Condition Survey
Subtitle
Hybrid Survey
Country
| Name | Country code |
|---|---|
| Vanuatu | VUT |
Study type
Socio-Economic/Monitoring Survey [hh/sems]
Series Information
Surveys in Vanuatu are conducted on specific topics, (health, agriculture sector, income and expenditure) at various periods. The HIES survey conducted by VNSO in 2010 was the latest one, this Hybrid Survey is the next one. Moreover, VNSO is sometimes involved in other surveys in collaboration with other departments (for example health with malaria survey, STEPS or MICS survey).
Abstract
The overall goal of the Hybrid Survey (HS) project is to provide Vanuatu statistical systems with an affordable means and methodology to regularly collect statistics across key social and economic sectors, to derive indicators that would provide Vanuatu Government and their development partners with a core set of statistics to facilitate evidence-based policy development and planning, to monitor development progress and measure policy performance, and ultimately to describe development impact.
This core set of indicators provided by HS is related to health, education, nutrition, income and expenditure, culture, family planning, employment, assets of the household. More generally it is a poverty assessment of the situation in Vanuatu, based on a household survey. The questionnaire related to the survey is long, and for many reasons it has to be divided into different visits, at least 4. At each visit a specific module has to be completed.
More specifically, the objective of the survey is to:
- Collect current indicators on the situation of the household (description of the house, access to facilities, current level of education of each member)
- Collect indicators on past period, recall period (number of people sick during the last 3 months, number of cigarettes smoked during the past 7 days)
- Collect data about expenditure and income on recall period (expenditure on clothes during the past 3 months, income from wages during the past 12 months)
- Collect data about daily expenditure for 7 days (what did you buy today, goods or services, food and non food items bought)
- Collect data about daily food items harvested, gathered, or received from fishing, hunting or livestock activities, or received for free as a gift.
The HS project covers most of the topics required for the contemporary governments to report to the country decision makers on how the population lives, what their need are and what they want for their lives and their country. While other surveys have the same approach: HIES (Household Income and Expenditure Survey), STEPS (health assessment of the population in 3 steps), MICS (multi indicator cluster survey: situation of women and children), each of these cover specific domains but the HS is multi sectoral.
This core set of indicators provided by HS is related to health, education, nutrition, income and expenditure, culture, family planning, employment, assets of the household. More generally it is a poverty assessment of the situation in Vanuatu, based on a household survey. The questionnaire related to the survey is long, and for many reasons it has to be divided into different visits, at least 4. At each visit a specific module has to be completed.
More specifically, the objective of the survey is to:
- Collect current indicators on the situation of the household (description of the house, access to facilities, current level of education of each member)
- Collect indicators on past period, recall period (number of people sick during the last 3 months, number of cigarettes smoked during the past 7 days)
- Collect data about expenditure and income on recall period (expenditure on clothes during the past 3 months, income from wages during the past 12 months)
- Collect data about daily expenditure for 7 days (what did you buy today, goods or services, food and non food items bought)
- Collect data about daily food items harvested, gathered, or received from fishing, hunting or livestock activities, or received for free as a gift.
The HS project covers most of the topics required for the contemporary governments to report to the country decision makers on how the population lives, what their need are and what they want for their lives and their country. While other surveys have the same approach: HIES (Household Income and Expenditure Survey), STEPS (health assessment of the population in 3 steps), MICS (multi indicator cluster survey: situation of women and children), each of these cover specific domains but the HS is multi sectoral.
Kind of Data
Sample survey data [ssd]
Unit of Analysis
Household
Scope
Notes
The scope of the Pacific Living Condition (Hybrid) Survey includes:
- Health
- Education
- Nutrition
- Iincome and expenditure
- Culture
- Family planning
- Employment
- Assets of the household
- Health
- Education
- Nutrition
- Iincome and expenditure
- Culture
- Family planning
- Employment
- Assets of the household
Coverage
Geographic Coverage
National
Producers and sponsors
Primary investigators
| Name | Affiliation |
|---|---|
| Vanuatu National Statistics Office | Ministry of Finance and Economic Management |
Sampling
Sampling Procedure
The HS is a survey based on a rotating sample of 1200 households (in each of the 6 provinces of Vanuatu) spread over a 12 month period between January 2012 and January 2013 according to a system of "round of collection". A round of collection is a period of 2 weeks; during this period the same families are interviewed. During 1 round, the same family is visited at least 4 times every 2 days. At each visit, enumerators have to complete 1 or 2 modules and a diary has to be checked (related to expenditure and home production). Enumerators have to complete 6 households in 1 round. In total, tthe field work is divided into 24 rounds (2 per month).
Sample:
1200 households are randomly selected; this selection was based on the household listing provided by the 2009 population census. The country is divided in 2 areas:
- Urban area: Port Villa and Luganville
- Rest of Vanuatu: Sanma and Shefa rural, Tafea, Malampa, Penama and Torba.
- 600 households in each area.
Sample:
1200 households are randomly selected; this selection was based on the household listing provided by the 2009 population census. The country is divided in 2 areas:
- Urban area: Port Villa and Luganville
- Rest of Vanuatu: Sanma and Shefa rural, Tafea, Malampa, Penama and Torba.
- 600 households in each area.
Data Collection
Dates of Data Collection
| Start | End |
|---|---|
| 2012 | 2013 |
Data Collection Mode
Face-to-face [f2f]
Supervision
Field staff is divided into 7 teams, one team is composed of:
- 2 enumerators
- 1 supervisor in charge of data entry
There is one team per province except in Shefa, where 2 teams are required teams are based in the main island of each province (administrative center) and will have to move within the island and within the province.
Teams are divided in 2 groups:
a. Group 1 (South Vanuatu)
- Efate: 2 teams
- Santo: 1 team
b. Group 2 (North Vanuatu)
- Vanua Lava: 1 team
- Malakula: 1 team
- Ambae: 1 team
- Tanna: 1 team
According to the size of the sample in each province, the workload is not the same for each team. One team has to complete 12 households per round (6 households per enumerators).
- 2 enumerators
- 1 supervisor in charge of data entry
There is one team per province except in Shefa, where 2 teams are required teams are based in the main island of each province (administrative center) and will have to move within the island and within the province.
Teams are divided in 2 groups:
a. Group 1 (South Vanuatu)
- Efate: 2 teams
- Santo: 1 team
b. Group 2 (North Vanuatu)
- Vanua Lava: 1 team
- Malakula: 1 team
- Ambae: 1 team
- Tanna: 1 team
According to the size of the sample in each province, the workload is not the same for each team. One team has to complete 12 households per round (6 households per enumerators).
Data Collectors
| Name | Abbreviation | Affiliation |
|---|---|---|
| Vanuatu National Statistics Office | VNSO | Ministry of Finance and Economic Management |
Questionnaires
Questionnaires
The survey is divided into 4 visits, and each visit is dedicated to specific questionnaires (provided as external resources in 3 languages : Bislama, English and French).
The questionnaires to complete during each visits are called MODULE (in total there are 6 modules to fill)
- Visit 1: module1
- Visit 2: module2 & module3
- Visit 3: module4
- Visit 4: module5 & module6
Each module is dedicated to different topics and different questionnaires are included in each module (in total 35 questionnaires).
Module1: Demographic profile; Work activities; Dwelling information; Recall on food
Module 2: Utilities; Utilities expenditure; Land and housing; Land and housing expenditure; Household assets; Household assets expenditure; Vehicle; Vehicle expenditure; Household services expenditure; Regular provision / financial support; Contribution to ceremonies;
Ceremonies expenditure; Personal loans; Personal store account; Insurance taxes and savings
Module 3: Education status; Education; Education expenditure; Health status of children 5years old and younger; Health status of all members; Health expenditure; Travel; Travel expenditure; Clothing; Clothing expenditure; Alcohol, Kava and tobacco; Alcohol, Kava and tobacco expenditure
Communication; Communication expenditure; Other personal expenditure
Module 4: Income / Work for wages and salaries; Income / Wages and salaries detailed; Income from non agriculture business obtain by the household; Description of the agriculture activities; Income / Agriculture activities; Description of the fishing activities; Income / fishing activities
Description of livestock activities; Income / livestock activities; Other income identification; Other income specification; Income / Remittances
Module 5: Birth history; Pregnancy and family planning
Module 6: Cultural practises; Perception of well being
Diary1: Daily expenditures on food items; Other daily expenditures; Food items received for free; Extra expenditure (food or non food); Extra home consumptionary2: Daily food items consumed / Nutrition
The questionnaires to complete during each visits are called MODULE (in total there are 6 modules to fill)
- Visit 1: module1
- Visit 2: module2 & module3
- Visit 3: module4
- Visit 4: module5 & module6
Each module is dedicated to different topics and different questionnaires are included in each module (in total 35 questionnaires).
Module1: Demographic profile; Work activities; Dwelling information; Recall on food
Module 2: Utilities; Utilities expenditure; Land and housing; Land and housing expenditure; Household assets; Household assets expenditure; Vehicle; Vehicle expenditure; Household services expenditure; Regular provision / financial support; Contribution to ceremonies;
Ceremonies expenditure; Personal loans; Personal store account; Insurance taxes and savings
Module 3: Education status; Education; Education expenditure; Health status of children 5years old and younger; Health status of all members; Health expenditure; Travel; Travel expenditure; Clothing; Clothing expenditure; Alcohol, Kava and tobacco; Alcohol, Kava and tobacco expenditure
Communication; Communication expenditure; Other personal expenditure
Module 4: Income / Work for wages and salaries; Income / Wages and salaries detailed; Income from non agriculture business obtain by the household; Description of the agriculture activities; Income / Agriculture activities; Description of the fishing activities; Income / fishing activities
Description of livestock activities; Income / livestock activities; Other income identification; Other income specification; Income / Remittances
Module 5: Birth history; Pregnancy and family planning
Module 6: Cultural practises; Perception of well being
Diary1: Daily expenditures on food items; Other daily expenditures; Food items received for free; Extra expenditure (food or non food); Extra home consumptionary2: Daily food items consumed / Nutrition
Access policy
Contacts
| Name | Affiliation | URL | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vanuatu National Statistics Office | Ministry of Finance and Economic Management | Stats@vanuatu.gov.vu | Link |
| World Bank Microdata Library | World Bank |
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
- 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 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 Document ID
DDI_VUT_2012_VHS_v01_M
Producers
| Name | Abbreviation | Affiliation | Role |
|---|---|---|---|
| Development Data Group | DECDG | The World Bank | Documentation of the DDI |
Date of Metadata Production
2014-01-30
DDI Document version
Version 1.0 (January 2014)