Priority Survey I 1991
Zambia, 1991
Identification
ZMB_1991_PS1_v01_M
Priority Survey I 1991
| Name | Country code |
|---|---|
| Zambia | ZMB |
Priority Survey (hh/ps]
The Priority Survey 1991 was the first of its kind to be undertaken in Zambia. The Priority Survey had been taken annually until 1995. The 1991 Priority Survey served as a basis on which to compare changes over time.
The purpose of this survey is to provide the Zambian government and other policymakers and planners with the necessary socio-economic data which will be used to assess the impact of structural adjustment policies and the well-being of the people. This survey will provide a basis on which to:
- Develop and maintain a statistical database on the social dimensions of adjustments
- Develop appropriate policies on social dimensions of adjustments
- Design and follow up economic and social policies and poverty alleviation programs and projects in conjunction with future social structural adjustments.
The primary objectives of the survey are:
- To provide a quick identification of policy target groups
- To provide a mechanism whereby key socio-economic variables can be easily and regularly produced in order to describe and monitor the well-being of different groups of households.
- To provide some key data on how the adjustment program affect the availability and quality of social and economic services to households, both as producers and consumers of products.
The data collected includes such topics as income, health, education, employment, nutrition and agriculture.
Sample survey data [ssd]
Individuals and Households
Version
v2.1: Edited, anonymous dataset for public distribution
1993-11
Scope
The scope of the survey included the following topics:
- Household identification variables, demography, education and health
- Economic activity for all household members 7 years and above and earnings
- Other sources of household income
- Housing and facilities, housing amenities
- Access to facilities
- Migration
- Agriculture crop production
- Agriculture vegetables
- Livestock and poultry
- Non-farm enterprise, general information
- Enterprise details
- Household expenditure
- Fixed household properties and assets
- Other household proporties
- Anthropometry
| Topic | Vocabulary | URI |
|---|---|---|
| income, property and investment/saving [1.5] | CESSDA | http://www.nesstar.org/rdf/common |
| agricultural, forestry and rural industry [2.1] | CESSDA | http://www.nesstar.org/rdf/common |
| employment [3.1] | CESSDA | http://www.nesstar.org/rdf/common |
| unemployment [3.5] | 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 |
| health care and medical treatment [8.5] | CESSDA | http://www.nesstar.org/rdf/common |
| TRANSPORT, TRAVEL AND MOBILITY [11] | CESSDA | http://www.nesstar.org/rdf/common |
| migration [14.3] | CESSDA | http://www.nesstar.org/rdf/common |
| consumption/consumer behaviour [1.1] | CESSDA | http://www.nesstar.org/rdf/common |
| nutrition [8.7] | CESSDA | http://www.nesstar.org/rdf/common |
| land use and planning [10.2] | CESSDA | http://www.nesstar.org/rdf/common |
| family life and marriage [12.5] | CESSDA | http://www.nesstar.org/rdf/common |
Coverage
National
The survey was conducted on a nation-wide sample basis and covered both rural and urban areas of all the nine provinces in the country. Within this framework, the eligible household population consisted of all civilion households. Excluded from the survey were, military establishments, institutional population in (hospitals, boarding schools, prisons, hotels, refugee camps, orphanages, etc) and diplomats accredited to Zambia in embassies and high commissions.
However, private households living around these institutions were enumerated such as teachers whose houses are on school premises, doctors and other workers living on or around hospital premises.
It should be noted that during the listing stage, the instititionalized households or persons were not listed at all but the buildings they lived in were listed for the purposes of taking stock of the total number of buildings in the SEAs.
Producers and sponsors
| Name | Affiliation |
|---|---|
| Central Statistical Office | Ministry of Finance and National Planning, Zambia |
| Name | Role |
|---|---|
| Statistics Norway | Provided technical support |
| World Bank Group | Provided technical support and managing funds on behalf of the Norwegian Government |
| Name | Role |
|---|---|
| Norwegian Government | Funded the study |
Sampling
A three - stage stratified household random sample design was used for the survey. The first stage constituted primary sampling units (PSUs) which were Census Supervising Areas CSAs), delineated for the 1990 Census of Population and Housing and Agriculture. Standard Enumeration Areas (SEAs) were second-stage sampling units, while households formed third-stage sampling units.
Sampling frame consisted of 4,144 CSAs and 12,999 SEAs.
Survey instrument
One questionnaire was used during the priority survey and this information was collected at both household level and individual level. Some sections were pertaining to all individuals, some to individuals aged 5 years and above, some to individuals age 7 years and above and some were pertaining to children below 5 years of age.
The Priority survey questionnaire had the following topics:
- Section 1: Household identification variables, Demography, Education and health
- Section 2: Economic activity for all household members 7 years and above and earnings
- Section 3: Household amenities, access and use of facilities
- Section 4: Migration (but data set not available)
- Section 5: Agricultural production
- Section 6: Information on Non farm Enterprises
- Section 7: Household expenditure
- Section 8: Household properties and assets
- Section 9: Anthropometry
Data collection
| Start | End |
|---|---|
| 1991-10 | 1991-11 |
| Name | Affiliation |
|---|---|
| Central Statistical Office | Ministry of Finance and National Planning |
Preparations for the priority survey field operations began with a user-producer seminar on the draft questionnaire in March, 1991 at the Mulungushi International Conference Centre. Thereafter, in April 1991, pretesting of the PS questionnaire was conducted in the rural parts of Lusaka province.
The second user-producer seminar took place in June, 1991 in Siavonga. It was aimed at improving the survey instruments further, taking into account the pre-test experiences. The seminar was followed by finalisation of the survey instruments, development of data entry and editing programs.
The training of master trainers, and Supervisors for the pilot survey took place in July, 1991.
After the pilot survey, the questionnaire, listing form, and enumerators manuals were further refined and a supervisors manual written in readiness for the main survey. Data from the pilot survey was not analysed because of time constraints and lack of computers at the time. However, the data from the pilot survey were used to update and test the data entry and editing computer programs that were used in the main survey. The main survey followed the pilot, in October and November, 1991.
There were a total of 9 Trainers (one for each province). The trainers also supervised the whole field operation in their respective provinces. Trainers were professional staff from the CSO headquarters.
The Provincial Statistical Officers assisted trainers in training, coordinating field work, and ensuring the successful execution of the survey in their respective provinces. Being provincial heads, they were also given the task of organising the administrative aspects of the survey such as arranging for transport, fuel, and so on.
Access policy
National Data Archive, Central Statistical Office of Zambia
National Data Archive, Central Statistical Office of Zambia
http://www.zamstats.gov.zm/nada/index.php/catalog/45
Cost: None
Data Access
| Name | Affiliation | URL | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Director of CSO | Central Statistical Office | http://www.zamstats.gov.zm | info@zamstats.gov.zm |
| Is signing of a confidentiality declaration required? | Confidentiality declaration text |
|---|---|
| yes | Confidentiality of respondents is guaranteed under the provisions of the Census and Statistics Act, CAP 127 of the laws of Zambia. |
The Director of the Central Statistical Office has to authorise access to information. Before being granted access to the dataset or any other information produced by CSO, all users have to formally agree to the following:
- To make no copies of any files or portions of files to which s/he is granted access except those authorized by the Central statistical Office.
- Not to use any technique in an attempt to learn the identity of any person, establishment or sampling unit not identified on public use data files
- To hold in the 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 the user's analysis will be immediately brought to the attention of the Central Statistical office.
- The data will be used for statistical and scientific research purposes only.
- The data and other materials will not be redistributed or sold to other individuals, institutions, or organisation without the written agreement of the CSO.
Central Statistical Office, Priority Survey I 1991 (PS 1991), Version 1.1 for the public use dataset (November 1993), provided by the Central Statistical Office.
Disclaimer and copyrights
All CSO products are protected by copyright. Users may apply the information as they wish, provided that they acknowledge CSO as the source of the basic data whenever they process, apply, utilize, publish or distribute the data, and also that they specify that the relevant application and analysis (where applicable) result from their own processing of the data. CSO and the relevant funding agency bear no responsibility for use of the data for interpretations or inferences based upon such uses.
Contacts
| Name | Affiliation | URL | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Director of CSO | Central Statistical Office | info@zamstats.gov.zm | http://www.zamstats.gov.zm |
Metadata production
DDI_ZMB_1991_PS1_v02_M
| Name | Affiliation | Role |
|---|---|---|
| Central Statistical Office | Ministry of Finance and National Planning | Documentation of the study |
2009-09-23
Metadata version
Edited version, the original DDI (ZMB-CSO-PS-1991-v1.0) was downloaded from National Data Archive, Central Statistical Office of Zambia (http://www.zamstats.gov.zm/nada/index.php/home) on December 2014. The following DDI elements have been modified: DDI Document ID, survey ID, Scope and Sampling.