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Continuous Multi-Purpose Household Survey 2012

Mauritius, 2012
Reference ID
MUS_2012_CMPHS_v01_M
Producer(s)
Central Statistics Office
Metadata
DDI/XML JSON
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Apr 07, 2014
Last modified
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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

    MUS_2012_CMPHS_v01_M
    Title

    Continuous Multi-Purpose Household Survey 2012
    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.

    Survey instrument

    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.

    Data collection

    Dates of Data Collection
    Start End
    2012 2012
    Data Collectors
    Name Affiliation
    Central Statistics Office Ministry of Finance & Economic Development
    Data Collection Notes

    Maurituis does not have a urban-rural classification. Therefore the variable "urb" is all urban but split between capital city (Port Louis) and other urban.

    Data Access

    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) 2012. Ref. MUS_2012_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.

    Contacts

    Contacts
    Name Affiliation Email URL
    Central Statistics Office Government of Mauritius statsmauritius@mail.gov.mu http://statsmauritius.gov.mu/

    Metadata production

    DDI Document ID

    DDI_MUS_2012_CMPHS_v01_M_WB
    Producers
    Name Affiliation Role
    Development Economics Data Group The World Bank Documentation of the DDI
    Date of Metadata Production

    2014-03-25

    Metadata version

    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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