Home / Central Data Catalog / MNG_2011_HSES_V01_M
central

Household Socio Economic Survey 2011

Mongolia, 2011
Reference ID
MNG_2011_HSES_v01_M
Producer(s)
National Statistical Office of Mongolia
Metadata
DDI/XML JSON
Created on
Sep 05, 2014
Last modified
Mar 29, 2019
Page views
15454
Downloads
765
  • Identification
  • Version
  • Scope
  • Coverage
  • Producers and sponsors
  • Sampling
  • Survey instrument
  • Data collection
  • Data processing
  • Data Access
  • Disclaimer and copyrights
  • Contacts
  • Metadata production

    • Identification

    Survey ID number

    MNG_2011_HSES_v01_M
    Title

    Household Socio Economic Survey 2011
    Country
    Name Country code
    Mongolia MNG
    Study type

    Socio-Economic/Monitoring Survey [hh/sems]
    Series Information

    The Household Socio-Economic Survey (HSES) 2011 is an improved version of the Household Income and Expenditure Survey (which had been conducted regularly since 1966). It is the lat­est among other household surveys implemented by the NSO to evaluate the living standards of the Mon­golian population such as the Assessment of the Living Standards of the Population of Mongolia, 1995; the Living Standards Measurement Survey, 1998; and the Household Income and Expenditure Survey/Liv­ing Standards Measurement Survey, 2002/03. The HSES is a permanent survey and every three years it will feature an extended version. This will not only allow monitoring poverty and living standards annually but also to capture additional information in order to help the government to design better policies.
    Abstract

    The HSES 2011 is a nationally representa­tive survey, which aims to evalu­ate and monitor the income and expenditure of households, update the basket and weights for consumer price index, and offer inputs to the national accounts. The HSES is a survey regularly conducted by the NSO and covers a 12-month period for analysis.
    Kind of Data

    Sample survey data [ssd]
    Unit of Analysis

    Mongolia is divided into 21 aimags. Ulaanbaatar is the capital city and is subdivided into 9 districts, 121 khoroos and 1,035 khesegs. Each kheseg has approximately 200 households. The rest of the country is divided into soums and bags. One of the soums in each aimag is normatively considered as the aimag center, while the others are regarded as the rural area.

    Version

    Version Date

    2008-07-01
    Version Notes

    The HSES was conceived as an improved version of the Household Income and Expenditure Survey (HIES) because several modules from a typical Liv­ing Standards Measurement Survey were merged to the previous HIES.

    Scope

    Notes

    The scope of the Household Socio-Economic is a household, all members of household and includes:
    -Basic socio-economic information about the members of the household
    -Education
    -Health
    -Re­productive health
    -Migration
    -Employment
    -Wage jobs
    -Job search
    -Agriculture and herding
    -Non-farm family businesses
    -Other income
    -Savings and loans,
    -Housing and energy
    -Durable goods
    -Non­food expenditures and food consumption.
    Topics
    Topic Vocabulary URI
    consumption/consumer behaviour [1.1] CESSDA http://www.nesstar.org/rdf/common
    economic conditions and indicators [1.2] CESSDA http://www.nesstar.org/rdf/common
    unemployment [3.5] CESSDA http://www.nesstar.org/rdf/common
    working conditions [3.6] CESSDA http://www.nesstar.org/rdf/common
    employment [3.1] CESSDA http://www.nesstar.org/rdf/common
    basic skills education [6.1] CESSDA http://www.nesstar.org/rdf/common
    general health [8.4] CESSDA http://www.nesstar.org/rdf/common
    housing [10.1] CESSDA http://www.nesstar.org/rdf/common
    land use and planning [10.2] CESSDA http://www.nesstar.org/rdf/common
    SOCIAL STRATIFICATION AND GROUPINGS [12] CESSDA http://www.nesstar.org/rdf/common
    fertility [14.2] CESSDA http://www.nesstar.org/rdf/common
    migration [14.3] CESSDA http://www.nesstar.org/rdf/common
    Keywords
    HSES LSMS NSO

    Coverage

    Geographic Coverage

    The survey is nationally representative and covers the whole of Mongolia.
    Geographic Unit

    Mongolia is divided into 21 aimags. Ulaanbaatar is the capital city and is subdivided into 9 districts, 121 khoroos and 1,035 khesegs. Each kheseg has approximately 200 households. The rest of the country is divided into soums and bags. One of the soums in each aimag is normatively considered as the aimag center, while the others are regarded as the rural area. Darkhan-Uul and Orkhon were the only two aimags were 24 bags were selected.
    Universe
    • Households (defined as a group of persons who usually live and eat together)
    • Household members (defined as members of the household who usually live in the household, which may include people who did not sleep in the household the previous night, but does not include visitors who slept in the household the previous night but do not usually live in the household)

    Producers and sponsors

    Primary investigators
    Name Affiliation
    National Statistical Office of Mongolia NSO
    Producers
    Name Affiliation Role
    World Bank, Mongolia WB Technical assistance
    Funding Agency/Sponsor
    Name Role
    World bank Funding of survey implementation

    Sampling

    Sampling Procedure

    The 2011 HSES used the sampling frame which was devel­oped by the NSO based on 2005 population figures obtained from local registration offices. This updated sampling frame was of great importance because the spatial dis­tribution of the population had changed dramati­cally over the last years and any frame based on the Census 2000 would not be relevant anymore.

    The design of the survey recognizes three ex­plicit strata: Ulaanbaatar, aimag centers, and soum centers and the countryside. In addition, the sample was implicitly allocated by districts and khoroos in Ulaanbaatar, and by aimags in rural areas. Each aimag center was an explicit sub-stratum. The selection strategy was different in each stratum: a two-stage process in urban areas and a three-stage process in rural areas. In Ulaanbaatar, 360 khesegs were initially selected, from each of which 10 households were chosen. In aimag centers, 12 or 24 bags were initially selected, and then 10 house­holds from each bag. In rural areas, first 52 soums, then 12 bags in each soum and fi­nally 8 households in each bag were selected. All 1,248 primary sampling units or clusters (units, bags or soums) were selected with a probability proportional to their sizes and were randomly allocated into twelve months of survey fieldwork.
    The use of this sampling procedure means that households living in different areas of the coun­try have been selected with different probabilities. Therefore, in order to obtain representative sta­tistics for each stratum and for the coun­try as a whole, it was necessary to use sampling weights. The weight which was assigned to each household corresponds to the inverse of the selection probability and takes the sampling strategy into account.

    The sample of 11,232 households was allocated as follows: 3,600 in Ulaanbaatar, 2,640 in aimag centers and 4,992 in rural areas and soum centers. However, the actual sample size used for this analysis is slightly smaller: 3,572 households in Ulaanbaatar; 2,639 in aimag centers; and 4,987 in rural areas and small towns. The difference is explained by 60 households, for which complete information was unavailable and were thus, excluded.

    Survey instrument

    Questionnaires

    The questionnaire of HSES 2007/08 contains 15 major mod­ules: basic socio-economic information about the members of the household, education, health, re­productive health, migration, employment, wage jobs, job search, agriculture and herding, non-farm family businesses, other income, savings and loans, housing and energy, durable goods, non­food expenditures and food consumption. Also contains 4 additional modules: purchases of food during the past month for urban households (by recall ), consumption of food and other frequenty purchased commodities for urban households (from diary), purchases of food during the part month for rural households, consumption of food during the past 7 days (by recall ) for rural households.

    Data collection

    Dates of Data Collection
    Start End
    2011-01-01 2011-12-01
    Data Collectors
    Name Affiliation
    National Statistical Office Parliamnet of Mongolia
    Data Collection Notes

    The overall data quality is to be considered of good standard. On the one hand, the large amounts of information that the HSES collects from households imposed new demands on op­erational strategies and data management com­pared to the previous HIES.

    Data processing

    Data Editing

    All procedures were streamlined and centralized, which is likely to have had a positive impact on the quality of the infor­mation. On the other hand, three different rounds of consistency checks were applied to the data: first during the data entry process, then during the compilation of the raw data files and finally during the preparation of this report. In all cases it was possible to compare these listings against the actual questionnaires filled out by the households (and at least during the first round of checks, some households were visited again) and the data were amended whenever a mistake was found.Databases for the HSES 2011 have been unified and data error checking was made (by using STATA program) in cooperation with working group.

    Data Access

    Access authority
    Name Affiliation URL Email
    Ch.Oyunchimeg Head,Population and Social Statistical Department www.nso.mn oyunchimeg@nso.mn
    Confidentiality
    Is signing of a confidentiality declaration required? Confidentiality declaration text
    yes Users of the data agree to keep confidential all data contained in these datasets and to make no attempt to identify, trace or contact any individual whose data is included in these datasets.
    Access conditions

    Survey datasets are distributed at no cost for legitimate academic research, with the condition that we receive an abstract or a detailed description of any research project that will be using the data prior to authorizing their distribution. Once received, the datasets must not be passed on to other researchers without the written consent of either NSO or World Bank. Copies of all reports and publications based on the requested data must be sent to NSO and World Bank.

    Requests for access to the datasets may be made through the website www.nso.mn.
    Citation requirements

    The following statement must be used as citation: "Source of data: National Statistical Office of Mongolia, Household Socio-Economic Survey 2011, Version 1.0 of the dataset (2011), provided by World bank"

    Disclaimer and copyrights

    Disclaimer

    The National Statistical Office of Mongolia and World Bank provide these data to external users without any warranty or responsibility implied. They accept no responsibility for the results and/or implications of any actions resulting from the use of these data.
    Copyright

    National Statistical Office of Mongolia and World bank

    Contacts

    Contacts
    Name Affiliation Email URL
    B.Tserenkhand Head,Data processing and Technology Department tserenkhand@nso.mn www.nso.mn

    Metadata production

    DDI Document ID

    DDI_MNG_2011_HSES_v01_M
    Producers
    Name Affiliation Role
    Oyunjargal Ganbaatar NSO Documentation of the study
    Date of Metadata Production

    2010-04-08

    Metadata version

    DDI Document version

    Version 01 (Apr. 2010)
    Version 02 (May 2014). Edited version based on Version 01 DDI (MNG-NSO-EN-HSES-2011-v1.0) That was done by Oyunjargal Ganbaatar (NSO).
    Back to Catalog