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Household Integrated Survey 2013

Georgia, 2013
Reference ID
GEO_2013_HIS_v01_M
Producer(s)
The State Department for Statistics of Georgia
Metadata
DDI/XML JSON
Created on
Dec 22, 2014
Last modified
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  • Study Description
  • Data Dictionary
  • Related Publications
  • Identification
  • Version
  • Scope
  • Coverage
  • Producers and sponsors
  • Sampling
  • Data Collection
  • Questionnaires
  • Access policy
  • Disclaimer and copyrights
  • Metadata production

Identification

Survey ID Number
GEO_2013_HIS_v01_M
Title
Household Integrated Survey 2013
Country
Name Country code
Georgia GEO
Study type
Income/Expenditure/Household Survey [hh/ies]
Series Information
Survey on Household Incomes and Expenditures 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
2013

Scope

Notes
The scope of the Household Integrated Survey includes:
- Household Expenses and Consumption;
- Household Transfers and Incomes from Property, Savings;
- Household Members Employment and Income;
- Monitoring of Poverty in Georgia;
- Harvest of the Household;
- Household Living Conditions;
- Economic Activity.

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 Abbreviation
The State Department for Statistics of Georgia GEOSTAT

Sampling

Sampling Procedure
The Household 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:

Probability of selecting each big city, small town and village council.
Probability of selecting each constituency in big cities/small towns and the zone in village councils.
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.

Data Collection

Dates of Data Collection
Start End Cycle
2013 2013 Quarterly
Data Collection Mode
Face-to-face [f2f]
Data Collectors
Name Abbreviation Affiliation
The State Department for Statistics of Georgia SDSG GEOSTAT

Questionnaires

Questionnaires
HIS questionnaire: The questionnaire consists of 8 sections:

- Shinda 01: General information about living conditions, housing, durables, etc. This section remained unchanged since the household survey was introduced in 1996.
- Shinda 02: Household composition. This section also remained unchanged since the survey inception.
- Shinda 03: 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.
- Shinda 04: 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.
- Shinda 05: 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.
- Shinda 05-1: Includes information on employment and incomes from employment of adult household members.
- Shinda 07: Refusal form. This section covers information on non-response or non-eligibility. This form helps correct the weights before data processing.
- Shinda 09: Monitoring of Poverty in Georgia.

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

Access policy

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) 2013, Ref. GEO_2013_HIS_v01_M. Dataset downloaded from [URL] on [date].
Access authority
Name Email URL
National Statistics Office of Georgia info@geostat.ge Link

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_2013_HIS_v01_M_WB
Producers
Name Abbreviation Affiliation Role
Poverty - GP GPVDR The World Bank Documentation of the study
Development Data Group DECDG The World Bank Documentation of the study
Date of Metadata Production
2014-11-13
DDI Document version
Version 02 (November 2014)
Additional datasets were added:
- tblshinda05_1;
- tblshinda05_abroad;
- tblshinda05_hh;
- tblshinda05_p.

Version 01 (September 2014)
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