Social and Living Standards Measurement Survey 2012-2013, Round 8
Pakistan, 2012 - 2013
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PAK_2012_PSLM_v01_M
Social and Living Standards Measurement Survey 2012-2013
Round 8
| Name | Country code |
|---|---|
| Pakistan | PAK |
Integrated Survey (non-LSMS) [hh/is]
Pakistan Social and Living Standards Measurement Survey (PSLM), 2012-13 is the eighth round of a series of surveys planned to be conducted up to 2015. The survey has been conducted with the aim to provide data for use by the government to monitor development plans at district level and rapid assessment of programmes initiated under Medium Term Development Framework (MTDF) in the overall context of MDGs.
The Pakistan Social and Living Standards Measurement (PSLM) Survey is one of the main mechanisms for monitoring the implementation of the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP). It provides a set of representative, population-based estimates of social indicators and their progress under the PRSP. These include intermediate as well as 'output' measures, which assess what is being provided by the social sectors - enrolment rates in education, for example. They include a range of 'outcome' measures, which assess the welfare of the population - Immunisation Rate, for example.
An important objective of the PSLM Survey is to try to establish what the distributional impact of PRSP has been. Policymakers need to know, for example, whether the poor have benefited from the programme or whether increased government expenditure on the social sectors has been captured by the better off.
Sample survey data [ssd]
- Individual
- Household
Scope
The scope of the Pakistan Social and Living Standards Measurement Survey 2012-2013 includes:
- Education
- Health
- Household assets/amenities
- Immunization
- Pre and postnatal care
- Satisfaction of services
Coverage
National, excluding military restricted areas
Villages
The universe of this survey consists of all urban and rural areas of the four provinces and Islamabad excluding military restricted areas.
Producers and sponsors
| Name | Affiliation |
|---|---|
| Pakistan Bureau of Statistics | Government of Pakistan |
| Name | Role |
|---|---|
| Government of Pakistan | Funding |
Sampling
Pakistan Bureau of Statistics has developed its own urban area frame. All urban areas comprising cities/towns have been divided into small compact areas known as enumeration blocks (EBs) identifiable through map. Each enumeration block comprises about 200-250 households and categorized into low, middle and high-income group, keeping in view the socio economic status of the majority of households. Urban area sampling frame consists of 26,698 enumeration blocks has been updated in 2003
Rural area: With regard to the rural areas, the lists of villages/mouzas/deh according to Population Census, 1998 have been used as sampling frame. In this frame, each village/mouzas/deh is identifiable by its Name, Had Bast Number, Cadastral map etc.
This frame is comprised 50,588 villages/mouzas
Stratification Plan:
A. Urban Domain: Islamabad, Lahore, Gujranwala, Faisalabad, Rawalpindi, Multan, Bahawalpur, Sargodha, Sialkot, Karachi, Hyderabad, Sukkur, Peshawar and Quetta have been considered as large sized cities. Each of these cities constitutes a separate stratum and has further been sub-stratified according to low, middle and high-income groups. After excluding population of large sized city (s), the remaining urban population in each district in all the provinces has been grouped together to form a stratum.
B. Rural Domain: Each district in the four provinces of Pakistan has been treated an independent stratum.
Sample Size and its Allocation: Keeping in view the objectives of the survey, the sample size for the four provinces has been fixed at 5,438 sample villages / enumeration blocks (PSU’s) comprising 77,764 households (SSU’s), which is expected to produce reliable results at the district level.
Sample Design: A two-stage stratified sample design has been adopted in this survey.
Selection of Primary Sampling Units (PSUs): Villages in rural areas and enumeration blocks in urban areas have been taken as Primary Sampling Units (PSUs). Sample PSUs have been selected from strata/sub-strata with PPS method of sampling technique. Village wise population of 1998 census and enumeration block wise number of households collected in 2002-03 updation of urban sampling frame have been treated as measure of size for selection of sample PSUs in rural and urban strata, respectively.
Selection of Secondary Sampling Units (SSUs): Households within sample PSUs have been taken as Secondary Sampling Units (SSUs). A specified number of households i.e. 16 and 12 from each sample PSU of rural & urban area have been selected, respectively, using systematic sampling technique with a random start.
26 PSU’s comprising 396 households of Panjgur district and 01 PSU consisting 16 households in Karachi were dropped from the scope of the survey due to law and order situations.
Detail of estimation procedures for estimates and their variances is attached as Annexure – I
Survey instrument
At both individual and household level, the PSLM Survey collects information on a wide range of topics using an integrated questionnaire. The questionnaire comprises a number of different sections, each of which looks at a particular aspect of household behaviour or welfare. Data collected under Round VIII includes Education, Health, Water Supply & Sanitation and Household Economic Situation & Satisfaction by facilities and services use.
Data collection
| Start | End |
|---|---|
| 2012-10 | 2013-06 |
Supervisors and Teams from Headquarters check field work.
Data processing
Data quality in PSLM Survey has been ensured through built in system of checking of fieldwork by the supervisors in the field as well as teams from the headquarters. Regional/ Field offices ensured the data quality through preliminary editing at their office level. The entire data entry was carried out at the PBS headquarter Islamabad and the data entry programme used had a number of in built consistency checks
Data appraisal
To determine the reliability of the estimates, Coefficient of Variations (CVs) and Confidence Limits of important key indicators have been worked out and are attached as Appendix B of the survey report.
Data Access
| Name | Affiliation | URL | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pakistan Bureau of Statistics | Government of Pakistan | www.pbs.gov.pk | pbs@pbs.gov.pk |
| Is signing of a confidentiality declaration required? | Confidentiality declaration text |
|---|---|
| yes | It will be ensured that the statistics supplied will not disclose in any way the identity and state of affairs of any individual, firm or institution in strict compliance of the General Statistics Act, 1975. |
Use of the dataset must be acknowledged using a citation which would include:
- the Identification of the Primary Investigator
- the title of the survey (including acronym and year of implementation)
- the survey reference number
- the source and date of download
Example:
Pakistan Bureau of Statistics. Pakistan Social and Living Standards Measurement Survey (PSLM) 2012-13. Dataset downloaded from [url] on [date].
Disclaimer and copyrights
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
| Name | Affiliation | |
|---|---|---|
| Pakistan Bureau of Statistics | Government of Pakistan | pbs@pbs.gov.pk |
Metadata production
DDI_PAK_2012_PSLM_v01_M
| Name | Affiliation | Role |
|---|---|---|
| Development Economics Data Group | The World Bank Group | Documentation of the DDI |
2020-10-27
Metadata version
Version 01 (October 2020).