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Household Integrated Survey 2012

Georgia, 2012
Reference ID
GEO_2012_HIS_v01_M
Producer(s)
The State Department for Statistics of Georgia
Metadata
DDI/XML JSON
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Dec 22, 2014
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  • Metadata production
  • Identification

    Survey ID number

    GEO_2012_HIS_v01_M

    Title

    Household Integrated Survey 2012

    Country
    Name Country code
    Georgia GEO
    Study type

    Income/Expenditure/Household Survey [hh/ies]

    Series Information

    The Household Integrated Survey was introduced in Georgia in the second half of 1996 and has been carried out each year since then (on a quarterly basis). The survey was revised significantly in 2002. The State Department for Statistics of Georgia (SDS), following to a large extent unchanged poverty measurement methodology established in 1997, has regularly calculated and published poverty measurement results.

    Abstract

    The Household Integrated Survey (HIS) in Georgia is conducted regularly from 1996 and has served to assess the level of consumption-based poverty since then. The HIS represents quarterly panel data. Each month 1/12 of the sample is refreshed.

    Kind of Data

    Sample survey data [ssd]

    Unit of Analysis
    • Households;
    • Individuals.

    Version

    Version Description

    Version 01

    Version Date

    2012

    Scope

    Notes

    The scope of the Household Integrated Survey includes:

    • Household Composition;
    • Living conditions;
    • Land Use;
    • Expenditures;
    • Transfers and Incomes from Property;
    • Savings;
    • Employment and Income from Employment.

    Coverage

    Geographic Coverage

    National coverage

    Geographic Unit

    The survey covers 13,404 households over the year. Each month 1/12 of the sample is refreshed (about 228 households are changed in 25 census units).

    Universe

    The survey covered all household members excluding persons fully supported by the state, for example persons staying in homes for the elderly and the disabled, children in public care institutions, prisoners and etc.

    Producers and sponsors

    Primary investigators
    Name Affiliation
    The State Department for Statistics of Georgia GEOSTAT
    Funding Agency/Sponsor
    Name
    The State Department for Statistics of Georgia

    Sampling

    Sampling Procedure

    The Household Integrated Survey consists in quarterly interviewing households in Tbilisi and 9 Regions of Georgia:

    1. Kakheti;
    2. Tbilisi;
    3. Shida Kartli, including Mtskheta-Mtianeti1;
    4. Kvemo Kartli;
    5. Mtskheta-Mtianeti;
    6. Samtskhe-Javakheti;
    7. Adjara;
    8. Guria;
    9. Samegrelo;
    10. Imereti, including Racha-Lechkhumi and Kvemo Svaneti.

    The sampling frame of households covers non-institutional part of the population. Those households are subject of observation which live at the sampled addresses. The sample size was selected so that various parameters could be estimated with satisfactory statistical precision not only on the level of the whole country but also on the level of the above listed regions.

    Weighting

    When the data of the sample survey are expanded to the total population, each household included in the sample is given a statistical weighting which characterizes the total number of households represented by the selected household. The average value of basic weighting is 600 i.e. Each selected household is a representation of about 600 households.

    The following factors are used for constructing a basic weighting:

    1. Probability of selecting each big city, small town and village council.
    2. Probability of selecting each constituency in big cities/small towns and the zone in village councils.
    3. Probability of selecting each household within the constituency and the zone included in the sample.

    The inverse value of the product of the three probabilities is the basic weighting of a household.

    Survey instrument

    Questionnaires

    Household Integrated Survey 2012 Questionnaire consists of the following sections:

    • Shinda01: General information about living conditions, housing, durables, etc. This section remained unchanged since the household survey was introduced in 1996.
    • Shinda02: Household composition. This section also remained unchanged since the survey inception.
    • Shinda03: Diary expenditure form. This section includes all diary expenditures during one week and it is filled out four times during the households' period of survey.
    • Shinda04: Quarterly expenditures and agricultural activity form. This section covers quarterly expenditures on durables, energy supplies, health care, education, and other services. The questionnaire also collects information about harvest and processing of agricultural products produced by the household, sale and income from selling these products. The questionnaire is filled out four times, simultaneously with diary expenditures form. This section also features “reminder questions”, which help households remember their expenditures.
    • Shinda05: Information about public and private transfers, as well as on changes in household financial and demographic conditions is collected in the section. The substance of the questions was not changed; however their phrasing was adjusted to make them more understandable for respondents.
    • Shinda05-1: Includes information on employment and incomes from employment of adult household members.
    • Shinda07: Refusal form. This section covers information on non-response or non-eligibility. This form helps correct the weights before data processing.

    NOTE: "Shinda" - Georgian abbreviation for "Observation of Households”.

    Data collection

    Dates of Data Collection
    Start End Cycle
    2012 2012 Quarterly
    Data Collectors
    Name Affiliation
    The State Department for Statistics of Georgia GEOSTAT

    Depositor information

    Depositor
    Name Affiliation
    Poverty - GP World Bank Group

    Data Access

    Citation requirements

    The use of the datasets must be acknowledged using a citation which would include:

    • the identification of the Primary Investigator (including country name)
    • the full title of the survey and its acronym (when available), and the year(s) of implementation
    • the survey reference number
    • the source and date of download (for datasets disseminated online)

    Example:

    The State Department for Statistics of Georgia. Georgia Household Integrated Survey (HIS) 2012, Ref. GEO_2012_HIS_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_GEO_2012_HIS_v01_M_WB

    Producers
    Name Affiliation Role
    Development Data Group The World Bank Documentation of the study
    Poverty - GP The World Bank Documentation of the study
    Date of Metadata Production

    2014-11-13

    Metadata version

    DDI Document version

    Version 01 (November 2014)

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