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Household Integrated Survey 2014

Georgia, 2014
Reference ID
GEO_2014_HIS_v01_M
Producer(s)
The State Department for Statistics of Georgia
Metadata
DDI/XML JSON
Created on
Mar 29, 2019
Last modified
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  • Identification
  • Version
  • Scope
  • Coverage
  • Producers and sponsors
  • Sampling
  • Survey instrument
  • Data collection
  • Depositor information
  • Data Access
  • Disclaimer and copyrights
  • Contacts
  • Metadata production

    • Identification

    Survey ID number

    GEO_2014_HIS_v01_M
    Title

    Household Integrated Survey 2014
    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

    2014

    Scope

    Notes

    The scope of the Household Integrated Survey includes:

    • General information about each household;
    • Household Expenses and Consumption;
    • Household Members Employment and Income;
    • Household Transfers and Incomes from Property, Savings;
    • Household Living Conditions;
    • Harvest of the Household;
    • Economic Activity;
    • Employment and Incomes from Employment;
    • Assistance, Other Incomes of Household.

    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 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.

    Survey instrument

    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.

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

    Data collection

    Dates of Data Collection
    Start End Cycle
    2014 2014 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

    Access authority
    Name URL Email
    National Statistics Office of Georgia http://www.geostat.ge/ info@geostat.ge
    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) 2014, Ref. GEO_2014_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.

    Contacts

    Contacts
    Name Affiliation Email
    ECA Team for Statistical Development World Bank ecatsd@worldbank.org

    Metadata production

    DDI Document ID

    DDI_GEO_2014_HIS_v01_M_WB
    Producers
    Name Affiliation Role
    Poverty - GP The World Bank Documentation of the study
    Development Data Group The World Bank Documentation of the study
    Date of Metadata Production

    2016-03-01

    Metadata version

    DDI Document version

    Version 02 (March 2016)
    The following datasets were received from GEOStat and added to the study:
    merge03_04_2010
    psu_strata_2014
    shinda04_coicop_2010
    sysschedule_old
    tblshinda05_1
    tblshinda05_abroad
    tblshinda05_hh
    tblshinda05_p

    Version 01 (August 2015)
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