SPC_FSM_2013_HIES_v01_M_v01_A_PUF
Household Income and Expenditure Survey 2013-2014
| Name | Country code |
|---|---|
| Federated States of Micronesia | FSM |
Income/Expenditure/Household Survey [hh/ies]
The 2014 Household Income and Expenditure Survey is the fourth of its kind to be conducted in the Federated States of Micronesia by the FSM Division of Statistics. The first round was in 1989 with no publication outputs. It was then followed by other surveys in 1998 and 2005.
The purpose of the HIES survey is to obtain information on the income, consumption pattern, incidence of poverty, and saving propensities for different groups of people in Federated States of Micronesia (FSM). This information will be used to guide policy makers in framing socio-economic developmental policies and in initiating financial measures for improving economic conditions of the people.
Some more specific outputs from the survey are listed below:
a) To obtain expenditure weights and other useful data for the revision of the consumer price index;
b) To supplement the data available for use in compiling official estimates of household accounts in the systems of national accounts;
c) To supply basic data needed for policy making in connection with social and economic planning, including producing as many of FSM's National Minimum Development Indicators (NMDI's) as possible;
d) To provide data for assessing the impact on household living conditions of existing or proposed economic and social measures, particularly changes in the structure of household expenditures and in household consumption;
e) To gather information on poverty lines and incidence of poverty throughout FSM.
Sample survey data [ssd]
Household, Individual
Version 01: Cleaned, labelled and anonymized version of the Master file.
2014
There were 5 Modules altogether which refers to different scope of the surveys.
Module 1 - contains Demographic Information:
Module 2 - collects information on Household Expenditure which include:
Module 3 - Individual Expenditures:
Module 4 - Income:
Weekly Diary - Covering 14 Days (2 weeks):
All four States of the Federatred States of Micronesia (FSM) were covered in the survey. They are:
Households who had lived in the country for at least 12 months or are intending to live in the country for the next 12 months.
| Name | Affiliation |
|---|---|
| Divison of Statistics | Office of Statistics, Budget and Economic Management, Overseas Development Assistance and Compact Management (SBOC) |
| Name |
|---|
| FSM Congress |
| Asian Development Bank |
| Name | Affiliation | Role |
|---|---|---|
| Chris Ryan | Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC) | Technical assistance in data collection and data processing |
| Pierre Wong | Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC) | Technical assistance in data collection and data processing |
| Fermin Sakisat | Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC) | Technical assistance in data collection and data processing |
The first stage of the sample design involved splitting the 4 states of FSM in to stratum which separated areas based on the level of access to certain facilities. In all, three different ratings of access were developed: "good access", "medium access" and "rare access". For the state of Kosrae, all areas were considered to have "good access".
Once the stratum had been formed then the sample allocation was performed. This was initially done at the state level, with the smaller states of Kosrae and Yap getting a higher fraction of sample than the larger states of Chuuk and Pohnpei. This was so that suitable quality results could still be achieved for the smaller states. Once the sample size was determined for the states, this was then split up amongst the stratum. The allocation was done to try and spread the workloads out as much as possible across each stratum. State managers were then required to determine the number of field workers they would require, keeping in mind it was more suitable to recruit interviewers from those selected areas.
The sample within each stratum was selected by initially selecting EAs, and then selecting 10 household per selected EA which in turn would equate to one workload over a 3 week period for one interviewer.
94.6 per cent of households across FSM are in-scope of the survey. Chuuk with only 89.2 percent of households in scope had the lowest representation, whilst Kosrae had all households in scope for the survey.
For the 2013/14 FSM HIES, it was decided by the Technical Working Group (TWG), which comprised of members from Statistics Division and the Statistics State Managers, that a responding sample of 10 percent would be desirable. In order to achieve this, undertake the following steps:
Weights were produced at the stratum level, and adjustments were made to account for scope reductions.
A Questionnaire consisting of four Modules and a Weekly Diary covering 2 weeks was used for the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM) Household Income and Expenditure Survey (HIES) 2013. Each Module covers distinct but connected portion of the Household.
The Modules & Diaries are as follows:
| Start | End |
|---|---|
| 2013-07-11 | 2014-07-10 |
| Name | Affiliation |
|---|---|
| Yap Statistics Office | Office of Statistics, Budget & Economic Management, Overseas Development Assistance and Compact Management |
| Chuuk Statistics Office | Office of Statistics, Budget & Economic Management, Overseas Development Assistance and Compact Management |
| Pohnpei Statistics Office | Office of Statistics, Budget & Economic Management, Overseas Development Assistance and Compact Management |
| Kosrae Statistics Office | Office of Statistics, Budget & Economic Management, Overseas Development Assistance and Compact Management |
HIES Staff in the states was not be expected to undertake all the field work. As such, additional interviewers and supervisors were required throughout the course of the project to assist with this work. Given the survey is expected to run over the course of 12 months, and interviewers enumerated more than one workload (10 households), the number of additional field staff was significantly lower than the last HIES conducted in the FSM.
State managers, in consultation with the HIES survey manager, will take charge of all the logistical aspects associated with the survey field work, including dispatching and collection of forms. Plans will be established prior to commencement of fieldwork as to where interviewers and supervisors will be expected to operate throughout the 12 months, and it is the responsibility of the state managers to see that this happens.
Number of additional supervisors and interviewers required:
Yap: 1 supervisor and 12 interviewers
Chuuk: 2 supervisors and 25 interviewers
Pohnpei: 2 supervisors and 10 interviewers
Kosrae: 5 interviewers
TOTAL: 5 supervisors and 52 interviewers
Program: CSPro 5.1x
Data editing took place at a number of stages throughout the processing, including:
a) Office editing and coding
b) During data entry; Error report correction; Secondary editing by Quality Control Officer (QCO)
c) Structure checking and completeness
Detailed documentation of the editing of data can be found in the "Data processing guidelines" document provided as an external resource.
| Name | Affiliation | URL | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Division of Statistics | Office of Statistics, Budget and Economic Management, Overseas Development Assistance and Compact Management (SBOC) | http://www.fsmstatistics.fm/?page_id=105 | stats@fsmrd.fm |
| Is signing of a confidentiality declaration required? | Confidentiality declaration text |
|---|---|
| yes |
All information collected in this survey will be kept confidential. The FSM Statistics Division currently operates under the guidance of the Statistics and Census Act of 1988. The relevant section of this Act, relating to the confidentiality issues of the survey is: Section 12: Wrongful disclosure of information prohibited. Breaches of this law can have significant impacts on the successful conduct of not only this survey but future surveys undertaken by the Government of FSM. Breaches of the law will also have an impact on the individual/s concerned in the sense that their pay can be docked and any other employment opportunities of this nature in the future will be lost. |
Licensed datasets, accessible under conditions.
"Division of statistics of Federated States of Micronesia, Household Income and Expenditure Survey 2013-2014 (HIES 2013-2014), Version 01 of the licensed datasets (2014), provided by the Pacific Microdata Library. http://pdl.spc.int/index.php/home"
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.
| Name | Affiliation | URL | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Division of statistics | Office of Statistics, Budget and Economic Management, Overseas Development Assistance and Compact Management (SBOC) | stats@fsmrd.fm | http://www.fsmstatistics.fm/?page_id=105 |
DDI_SPC_FSM_2013_HIES_v01_M_v01_A_PUF
| Name | Affiliation | Role |
|---|---|---|
| Statistics for Development Division | Pacific Community | Documentation of study |
2018-12-04
Version 01 (December 2018): This is the first attempt at documenting the 2013-2014 FSM HIES.