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Roundtable Meeting on Programme for the 2010 Round of Censuses of Agriculture Bangkok, Thailand 28 November-2 December, 2005. VILLAGE LEVEL SOCIO-ECONOMIC DATA COLLECTION AND ITS USE OF CAMBODIA. By Seng Soeurn National Institute of Statistics, Cambodia. Background.
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Roundtable Meeting on Programme for the 2010 Round of Censuses of AgricultureBangkok, Thailand 28 November-2 December, 2005 VILLAGE LEVEL SOCIO-ECONOMIC DATA COLLECTION AND ITS USE OF CAMBODIA By Seng Soeurn National Institute of Statistics, Cambodia
Background • Between 1963 and 1993, absent of Household Surveys and Censuses. • In 1993 National Institute of Statistics of the Ministry of Planning was assigned as a central government agency. • The national Institute of Statistics has conducted five Cambodia Socio-Economic Surveys: 1993-94, 1996, 1997, 1999 and newly completed its final round of 2003-04.
Background (cont.) • The 1998 Population Census has implemented and provided a much more complete demographic picture and has introduced a new era of sampling. • Many other surveys also have been conducted: Survey of Industrial Establishments 1993 and 2000, Labor Force Survey 2000 and 2001, Demographic Survey 1996, Demographic and Health Survey 2000 and 2004, etc. • Since 2001 a Compilation of Commune Database has been adopted and implemented. • Agriculture-based surveys: Cost Production Survey and Crops Cutting Survey of Paddy and Maize.
Experience of Various HouseholdSocio-Economic Survey • Survey round and sample size are vary according to each survey • Inconsistency between surveys, seasonality problems, different rounds used, sampling issues, etc. • Budget implement is mainly based on aid funding and different donors
Experience of Various Household Socio-Economic Survey • A recently survey round 2003/04, National Institute of Statistics and other stakeholders decided to establish new baseline, using the diary method with 15,000hhs • Long training (3 weeks plus briefing sessions) of enumerators and supervisors • Systematically supervision of fieldwork by core staff • Close to 100 percent respondent rate
Data collection • About 90-100 interviewers and supervisors were involved, comprising of central level through local level • The interviewers canvassed from the respondents (usually the head of the household) and entered in the questionnaire • Questionnaire design were comprehensive discussed various stakeholders
Uses of questionnaire • There are 4 types questionnaire: - Listing sheet - Village questionnaire - Household questionnaire (income and expenditures) - Diary sheet - Time use
Listing of households • Building type (where the housing occupied) • Name of household head • Address of household • Number of household members • Principal economic activity of the household • Disable members of the household
Household questionnaire • Demographic characteristics • Education and literacy • Economic characteristics • Health • Housing particular • Household consumption expenditures and main source of income • Household assets and liabilities • Fertility and child care
Household questionnaire(cont.) • Durables goods • Construction activities • Nutrition • Fertility and child care • Mortality • HIV/AIDS • Victimization • Time sue survey
Village questionnaire • Demographic information • Economic infrastructures • Rainfall and natural disasters • Education • Health • Retail prices • Employment wages • Access to common property resources during the last 5 years • Sales prices of agriculture land in the village • Recruitment of children for work outside the village
Main topics for Agriculture collected in the household survey • Landownership • Production of crops • Hypothetical questions on rental and sales market • Inputs and outputs of livestock raising activities • Input and outputs from fish cultivation and fishing/trapping of aquatic products • Inputs and outputs from forestry and hunting • Inventory of household non-agricultural economic activities
Uses of data • to compile social and economic indicators (Statistical year book) • Used for national accounts and consumer price index • To prepare for national strategic development plan (NSDP) • To prepare commune policy and development plans • To monitor poverty trend (poverty line, poverty statistics) and Cambodia Millennium Development Goals • To monitor sectoral development plan • For users (researchers, policy-makers) • For local and international non-governmental