SLB_2005_HIES_v01_M
DDI_SLB_2005_HIES_v01_M
Development Economics Data Group
2012-04-11
Nesstar Publisher
Version 01: (April 2012)
Household Income and Expenditure Survey 2005-2006
HIES 2005-06
SLB_2005_HIES_v01_M
Solomon Islands Statistics Office (SISO)
Nesstar Publisher
Solomon Islands National Statistics Office (SINSO)
Income/Expenditure/Household Survey [hh/ies]
The Household Income and Expenditure Survey (HIES) 2005/6 is the second and comprehensive nation-wide survey conducted by the Solomon Islands Statistics Office (SISO) of the Department of Finance and Treasury. The first survey was conducted in 1992 and was limited in scope and coverage.
Solomon Islands
National. The HIES operation covered both the Urban and Rural areas focusing on Honiara, Other Urban Areas and the Rural Areas of the ten (9) provinces, and aimed to produce estimates at the country national and provincial levels only.
The survey targeted private households whilst collective households in hospital, hotels, prison and educational institutions were excluded. A household is considered in the scope for the survey if the household have resided in the Solomon Islands for the last 12 months or more, or if not, they intend to live in Solomon Islands for the next 12 months.
Sample survey data [ssd]
Face-to-face [f2f]
The Statistics Programme at the Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC) provided the assistance in data processing. A HIES data entry program was setup in CSPro version 2.6 and data entry started soon after the first workload was registered in the Statistics Office in November 2005 until May 2006. Logic procedures for data editing are prepared in Microsoft Access and data editing for all questionnaires were done in CSPro, except for the Diary where the editing is done in Microsoft Excel. Data management queries are done in Microsoft Access and the production of tables was done in Microsoft Excel. This report was prepared in Microsoft Word. Data verification of 5 per cent is done to check the accuracy of data input, though data edit checks are carried out for completeness, consistency and accuracy including the outliers. Anomalies of data were amended appropriately.