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Continuous Multi-Purpose Household Survey 2008

Mauritius, 2008
Reference ID
MUS_2008_CMPHS_v01_M
Producer(s)
Central Statistics Office
Metadata
DDI/XML JSON
Created on
Apr 07, 2014
Last modified
Mar 29, 2019
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  • Study Description
  • Data Dictionary
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  • Identification
  • Version
  • Scope
  • Coverage
  • Producers and sponsors
  • Sampling
  • Data Collection
  • Questionnaires
  • Access policy
  • Disclaimer and copyrights
  • Metadata production

Identification

Survey ID Number
MUS_2008_CMPHS_v01_M
Title
Continuous Multi-Purpose Household Survey 2008
Country
Name Country code
Mauritius MUS
Study type
Other Household Survey [hh/oth]
Series Information
Data collection is carried out monthly except in 2004 when it was carried out every quarter. Up to 2005, the reference period for data on labor force was the last week of the survey month. As from 2006, the reference week has been changed to the second week of the survey month so that estimates can be published within one quarter of the reference period, as required by the IMF Special Data Dissemination System (SDDS) to which the country has graduated on 28 February 2012.
Kind of Data
Sample survey data [ssd]
Unit of Analysis
- Households
- Individuals

Version

Version Description
v01

Scope

Notes
The scope of the survey includes the following:
- Demographic characteristics of household members
- Individual record
- Household record
- Education
- Time use
- Employment
- Safety and security
- Household income and expenditure
- Energy use
- Labor force

Coverage

Geographic Coverage
All private Mauritian households in the islands of Mauritius and Rodrigues are covered.

Producers and sponsors

Primary investigators
Name Affiliation
Central Statistics Office Ministry of Finance & Economic Development

Sampling

Sampling Procedure
A Stratified two-stage sampling design is used. At the first stage, Primary Sampling Units (PSUs) are selected with probability proportional to size and at the second stage, a fixed number of households is selected from each selected PSU. Prior to 2005, the first stage stratification factors were urban, semi urban and rural geographical locations. The second stage stratification criteria are community, household size and average monthly expenditure of the household. From 1999 to 2003, around 6,500 households were covered each year. In 2004, the sample was increased to 8,640 so that reliable quarterly estimates of labor force, employment and unemployment could be worked out. As from 2005, the sample for the year has been further increased to 11,280. Furthermore, in order to measure quarterly changes, 50% of the households sampled in a quarter are re-interviewed in the following quarter; for example, 50% of the households sampled in the first quarter of 2005 have been re-interviewed in the second quarter of 2005.

Data Collection

Dates of Data Collection
Start End
2008 2008
Data Collection Mode
Face-to-face [f2f]
Data Collectors
Name Abbreviation Affiliation
Central Statistics Office CSO Ministry of Finance & Economic Development

Questionnaires

Questionnaires
The CMPHS questionnaire comprises three modules: a basic module common to all rounds of the survey covering the general characteristics of the population (b) a second module covering labor force with in-depth investigation and a core set of questions which are kept constant at all rounds of the survey and (c) a third module grouping other topics of interest but investigated in less details.

Access policy

Contacts
Name Affiliation Email URL
Central Statistics Office Government of Mauritius statsmauritius@mail.gov.mu Link
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:
Central Statistics Office. Mauritius Continuous Multi-Purpose Household Survey (CMPHS) 2008. Ref. MUS_2008_CMPHS_v01_M. Dataset downloaded from [url] 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.

Metadata production

DDI Document ID
DDI_MUS_2008_CMPHS_v01_M_WB
Producers
Name Abbreviation Affiliation Role
Development Economics Data Group DECDG The World Bank Documentation of the DDI
Date of Metadata Production
2014-03-25
DDI Document version
Version 02 (August 2015)
- Adding datasets
- Providing value labels for all categorical variables
- Editing external resources

Version 01 (March 2014)
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