| Description |
The questionnaire was administered through face-to-face interviews, with data entry conducted using Computer-Assisted Personal Interviewing software. The questionnaire was divided into 30 main modules as shown below:
- household ID
- international trips
- demographic profile
- financial support
- health
- livestock
- communication
- agriculture
- alcohol
- fisheries
- other individual expenses
- handicraft
- labour force
- floriculture
- food away from home (FAFH)
- hunting
- food recall
- legal services
- non-food recall
- household services and taxes
- partaker
- other household expenditure
- dwelling characteristics
- remittances
- assets
- financial inclusion
- home maintenance/construction
- food insecurity
- vehicles
- shocks.
Household food consumption was collected via a seven-day food consumption recall. All transactions (food, non-food, home production and gifts) were collected by different recall sections of the questionnaire during the same visit. The traditional 14-day diary, which was used in the 2012/13 HIES, is no longer recommended for use in the Pacific region. |
