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Annual Household Survey 2004

Lao PDR, 2004
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Reference ID
LAO_2004_AHS_v01_M
Producer(s)
National Statistical Center (NSC)
Metadata
DDI/XML JSON
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Feb 19, 2014
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  • Study Description
  • Data Description
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  • Identification
  • Version
  • Scope
  • Coverage
  • Producers and sponsors
  • Sampling
  • Data Collection
  • Questionnaires
  • Data Processing
  • Access policy
  • Disclaimer and copyrights
  • Metadata production

Identification

Survey ID Number
LAO_2004_AHS_v01_M
Title
Annual Household Survey 2004
Country
Name Country code
Lao PDR LAO
Study type
Other Household Survey [hh/oth]
Series Information
This is the second AHS survey that was conducted in Lao PDR by National Statistical Center (predecessor of Department of Statistics/Lao Statistics Bureau) in 2004.
Abstract
The Annual Household Survey is conducted to provide data requirements of the National Accounts of Lao PDR.
Kind of Data
Sample survey data [ssd]
Unit of Analysis
- Household
- Individual

Version

Version Description
Version 2.0: Final Dataset, for public distribution.
Version Date
2004-11

Scope

Notes
The 2004 Annual Household Survey covered the following topics:
- Household composition
- Labour Force: Labour force participation last seven days; overview of work in the 7 days (person 10 years and over)
- Construction Activities
- Household Businesses: Establishing the existince of non-farm enterprises
- Agriculture: crop harvested; fishery; forestry; livestock; poultry
- Households' Purchase and selling of Durables
- Income and Transfers
- Daily Expenditure includes cash and own in kind use

Coverage

Geographic Coverage
- National
- Province
- Urban and Rural
- Three Regions: North, Central, South
Universe
- All private household in Lao PDR
- all person 10 years and over

Producers and sponsors

Primary investigators
Name Affiliation
National Statistical Center (NSC) Committee for Planning and Investment
Funding Agency/Sponsor
Name Abbreviation Role
Swedish International Development Agency SIDA Funding the study

Sampling

Sampling Procedure
- Household Sameple Size: 2,400 household
- Village Sample Size: 240 Villages
- AHS 2004, For each village, random sample of 5 household from 10 household of AHS2003 and 5 new household from the list provided by village chief to the enumerator.

For detail please refer to the manual for "AHS2004 Report - Final" (Lao version) on page 2.

Data Collection

Dates of Data Collection
Start End
2004-10-25 2004-11-08
Data Collection Mode
Face-to-face [f2f]
Supervision
- Advised by the Lao Statistics Bureau and Provincial Department of Planning and Investment

- National and Provincial advisor.
Data Collection Notes
- One month for data collection
- 120 villages for the first two weeks and the remaining 120 villages on the second two weeks
- Data collection on one village take 15 days
Data Collectors
Name Abbreviation
Provincial Department of Planning and Investment DPI
District Department of Planning and Investment

Questionnaires

Questionnaires
AHS 2004 has 2 forms:

(1) Household Survey
- identification
- household composition
- labor force: labor force participation last sevendays; overview of work in the last seven days
- construction activities in the past 12 months
- household businesses: establishing the existence of non-farm enterprises
- agriculture: crop harvested during last 12 months; fishery; forestry; livestock, poultry
- households' purchase and selling of durables during the last 12 months
- income and transfers

(2) Diary Expenditure and Consumption Household Survey
- identification
- households' diary sheet for household transactions

Data Processing

Data Editing
Data editing:
- Office editing and coding
- Use software Microsoft Access for entry and checking data
- Use SQL Server for Database
- Use SPSS for analysis

Access policy

Contacts
Name Affiliation Email URL
Head of Data Service Division Lao Statistics Bureau nscit@etllao.com Link
Confidentiality
This (Census/Survey) conforms to the provisions of confidentiality stated under Article 24 of the Statistics Law, of Lao PDR which identifies the "three type of statistics confidentiality as follows: 1. State confidentiality with regard to stability, national defense, security and other secrets that are defined in a specific manner; 2. State confidentiality with importance to any specific sector; 3. Individual confidentiality of information from any individual, legal person or any organization that are gathered/collected from survey and administrative report." Before being granted access to the dataset, all users have to formally agree: 1. To make no copies of any files or portions of files to which s/he is granted access except those authorized by the LSB. 2. Not to use any technique in an attempt to learn the identity of any person, establishment, or sampling unit not identified in the dataset. 3. To hold in strictest confidence the identification of any establishment or individual that may be inadvertently revealed in any documents or discussion, or analysis. Such inadvertent identification revealed in her/his analysis will be immediately be reported to the LSB.
Access conditions
Authorization to use this data is granted only to the client or data user and persons within the Lao Statistics Bureau (LSB). Under no circumstances shall the client reproduce, distribute, sell or lend the entire data or parts thereof to any other data user apart from himself or that of authorized employees in the LSB. The LSB shall hold the data user fully responsible for safeguarding the data from any unauthorized access or use.
Citation requirements
Lao Statistics Bureau, Annual Household Survey 2004 (HS2004), Version 2.0 of the public use dataset (May 2012), provided by the Lao National Data Achive (www.nsc.gov.la/nada).
Access authority
Name Affiliation Email URL
Vice Minister, Head of Lao Statistics Bureau Lao Statistics Bureau (LSB) nscp@etllao.com Link

Disclaimer and copyrights

Disclaimer
The LSB gives no warranty that the data are free from errors. The user of the data acknowledges that the Lao Statistics Bureau (LSB), Ministry of Planning and Investment and the Swedish International Development Co-operation Agency (SIDA) bear no responsibility for use of the data or for interpretations or inferences based upon such uses.

Metadata production

DDI Document ID
DDI_LAO_2004_AHS_v02_M
Producers
Name Abbreviation Affiliation Role
Yangxiong Yang Lao Statistics Bureau (LSB) Metadata Producer
Phaithong Phai Lao Statistics Bureau (LSB) Metadata Producer
Date of Metadata Production
2012-05-14
DDI Document version
Version 02 (December 2013). Edited version based on Version 1.0 (May 2012) DDI (DDI-LAO-LSB-AHS-2004-v1.0) that was done by Yangxiong and Phaithong (Lao Statistics Bureau (LSB)).
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