{"doc_desc":{"title":"Household  Income and Expenditure Survey - 2006-2007","idno":"DDI-LKA-DCS-HIES-2006-2007-v1.0","producers":[{"name":"Department of Census and Statistics","abbreviation":"DCS","affiliation":"Ministry  of  Finance  &  Planning","role":"Data Collection"}],"prod_date":"2008-01-30","version_statement":{"version":"Version 1.0 ( February 2008 )."}},"study_desc":{"title_statement":{"idno":"LKA-DCS-HIES-2006-2007-v1.0","title":"Household Income and Expenditure Survey - 2006\/07","alt_title":"HIES 2006-2007"},"authoring_entity":[{"name":"Department of Census and Statistics","affiliation":"Ministry of Finance and Planning"}],"oth_id":[{"name":"Ministry of Finance and Planning","role":"Providing equipment grant"}],"production_statement":{"copyright":"(C) 2008, Department of Census and Statistics","prod_date":"2008-01-30","funding_agencies":[{"name":"Goverment of Sri Lanka","abbreviation":"GOSL"}]},"distribution_statement":{"contact":[{"name":"Information Unit","affiliation":"Department of Census and Statistics","email":"information@statistic.gov.lk ","uri":"http\/\/:www.statistics.gov.lk"},{"name":"Sample Survey Division","affiliation":"Department of Census and Statistics","email":"Sample.survey@statistic.gov.lk ","uri":"http\/\/:www.statistics.gov.lk"},[]]},"series_statement":{"series_name":"Income\/Expenditure\/Household Survey [hh\/ies]","series_info":"Household Income & Expenditure Survey has been conducted, since 1990 as a separate survey. This  survey  is  the  sixth  in  the  series  of  Income  and  Expenditure  Surveys  conducted  generally  once  in  five  years.  This survey provides information on household income and expenditure in order  to measure the levels and changes in the living conditions of the people,  to observe the consumption patterns and  to compute various other indicators such as poverty. \n\nThe data collection in the field is done in twelve monthly rounds to capture the seasonal variation of income and expenditure patterns of households. The data was collected by direct interviews based on a special schedule  which had three sections:-  \n\n(1) Demographic characteristics\n(2) Household expenditure (Food and Non-food items)\n(3) Household income (Monetary and Non-monetary income)"},"version_statement":{"version":"v1.0: Full edited dataset, original version  for internal DPD use.","version_date":"2008-02-13"},"study_info":{"topics":[{"topic":"income, property and investment\/saving [1.5]","vocab":"CESSDA","uri":"http:\/\/www.nesstar.org\/rdf\/common"}],"abstract":"This survey provides information on household income and expenditure to be able to measure the levels and changes in the living condition of the people, to observe the consumption patterns and to compute various other indicators such as poverty, food ratio, gini co-efficient of income and expenditure etc. \n\nKey  objectives  of  the  survey\n    -  To  identify the  income patterns  in  Urban, Rural, Estate  Sector and Districts.\n    -  To  identify  the income  patterns  by  income  levels.\n    -  Average  consumption  of  food  items  and  non  food  items\n    -  Expenditure  patterns  by  sector  and  by  different  income  levels.\n    -  To  identify  the  incidence  of  poverty  by  sector  and  income  levels","coll_dates":[{"start":"2006-06-03","end":"2007-07-31"}],"nation":[{"name":"Sri Lanka","abbreviation":"LKA"}],"geog_coverage":"National coverage.\nFor this survey a sample of buildings and the occupants therein was drawn from the whole island (excluding the Nothern Province and the Trincomalee District).","analysis_unit":"Household, Individuals","data_kind":"Sample survey data [ssd]","notes":"The  scope  of  HIES 2006-2007 includes the following key sections:-\n\n                                                1). Demographic characteristics\n                                                2). School education\n                                                3). Health information\n                                                4). Income and expenditure\n                                                5). Inventory of durable goods \n                                                6). Access to facilities in the area\n                                                7). Debts of the household\n                                                7). Information about housing \n                                                8). Agricultural holding and livestock.        \n\nFurther details are appended below.\n\n\n----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nIdentification  and demographic Information\n    -  Address\n    -  Province\n    -  District\n    -  D.S. Division\n    -  Name of MC\/UC\n    -  G. N. Division\n    -  Name  of  Village\n    -  Name  of  Estate\n    -  P.S.U. No  &  SSU No.\n    -  Survey  Month\n    -  Number  of  households\n    -  Name  of  the Head  of the  household\n    -  Interviewer's  &  Supervising Office\n    - Relationship to the head of the household\n    - Sex\n    - Date of Birth\n    - Age as at last birthday\n    - Ethnicity \n    - Religion\n    - Level of education\n    - Attendance at school\n    - Marital status\n    - Current activity\n    - Main occupation\n    - Main industry\n    - Employment status\n     \nSchool  Education  ( for aged 5-20 years )\n    - Grade (current year)\n    - Grade (previous year)\n    - Distance to school from house\n    - Mode of travel\n    - Time taken to school\n    - Why did you never attend to school\n    - Why did you leave school\n    \nHealth\n    - Did you visit hospital during last month\n    - Reason for visit\n    - Did you stay hospital during last 12 months\n    - Reason for stay\n    - Did you suffer from chronic illness\n    - Have your job affected because of your illness\n    \nExpenditure\n    -  Daily consumption on Food,  Drink  and  Tobacco    \n       ( Cereals,  Prepared  foods,  Pulses,  Vegetables,  Leafy  Vegetables,  Yams & other,  Meat,  Fish,  Dried  fish,  \n         Eggs,  Coconuts,  Condiments,  Other  Packed,  Tinned  and  Bottle  foods,  Milk  and  milk foods,  Fats  and \n          Oils,     Sugar,  Juggary  and  Treacle,  Dried  foods,  Canned  Fruits,  Confectioner  and  Short  eats, \n          Beverages-Non alcoholic,  Liquor,  Drugs  and  Tobacco\n    -  Household  expenditure on  Housing, Fuel and  Light,  Non-durable  goods, Services  and  Consumer durables  for \n        main  Household\n        ( Housing,  Fuel  and  Light,  Personal care expenses,  Health expenses,  Transport  fees,  Communication,\n          Education,  Recreation  entertainment,  Cultural  Activities  and  Vocational training,  Non-durable  household   \n          goods,  Household  services,  Clothing and Textiles,  Foot  wear  and  other  personal  affects, \n           Durable  household  goods,          Other  expenses,  Other ad-hoc  expenses\n    -  Expenditure on Housing, Fuel & Light, Non-durable goods, Services & Consumer durables for boarders &\n      domestic servants.\n\nIncome\n    -  Income from paid employment\/s  during  last  four  weeks\/ last calendar month\n    -  Income from agricultural activities - (Paddy, Other seasonal crops)\n    -  Income from other agricultural activities.\n   -  Income From Non- agricultural activities\n    -  Income from Other cash receipt during last calendar month \/ last 12 month\n    -  Income by Chance or ad hoc gains during last 12 months\n \n Inventory  of  durable  goods\n     Household Equipments\n      Radio \/ Cassette player\n      Television\n      V.C.D. \/ D.V.D.\n      Sewing machines\n      Washing machines\n       Refrigerators\n      Cookers ( Gas, Kerosene, Electric)\n      Electric fans\n\n      Telephone (Domestic)\n      Telephone (mobile)\n      Personal Computers\n    For Transport purpose\n      Bicycles\n      Motor cycles \/ Scooters\n      Three wheelers\n      Motor cars \/ Vans\n      Bus \/ Lorry\n    Agricultural Equipments\n      Tractors (Two wheel)\n      Tractors (Four wheel)\n      Sprayers\n      Threshers\n      Water pumps\n    Fishing Equipments\n      Boats\n      Fishing nets\n  Debits\n    - Banks (Government \/ Private)\n    - Finance Companies \/ Leasing Companies \n    - Own Place of work\n    - Money Lenders\n    - Retail outlets\n \n Access  to  Facilities\n    Bus Halt (nearest)\n    Pre school \/ Montessori\n    Primary School\n    Maha Vidyalaya\/ M.M.V. \/ Jathika Pasala\n    Base Hospital \/ Teaching Hospital \/District Hospital\n    Maternity Home\n    Government Dispensary\n    Private Dispensary\n   Clinic (Maternity \/ Infancy)\n    M.O.H. office\n    M.C. \/ U.C. \/ P. S.\n    Divisional Secretariat office\n    G.N.Office\n     Post office \/ Sub post office\n     Bank (Govt. \/ Private)\n     Agrarian Service Center\n\nHousing Characteristics\n    -  Type  of  structure\n    -  Number  of  bed  rooms\n    -  Total  Floor  area\n    -  Principal  material  of  construction\n    -  Tenure\n    -  Main  source of drinking water\n    -  Distance to take source  of drinking water\n    -  Availability  of  toilet\n    -  Disposable  of  Garbage\n    -  Principal  of lighting\n    -  Principal  type of cooking fuel.\n    -  Collect  firewood?\n    -  Affected  by  natural  disaster?\n    \nAgricultural  Holdings and  Livestock\n     -  Own a  agricultural  land?\n     -  Land  area\n     -  Livestock"},"method":{"data_collection":{"data_collectors":[[]],"sampling_procedure":"A two stage stratified random sample design was used in the survey. Urban, rural and estate sectors of the District are the domains for stratification. The sample frame is the list of buildings that  were prepared for the Census of Population and Housing 2001.\n\nSelection of Primary Sampling Units (PSU's) \n\nPrimary Sampling Units are the census blocks prepared for the Census of Population and Housing - 2001. The sample frame, which is a collection of all census blocks in the domain, was used for the selection of primary sampling units. A sample of 2500 primary sampling units was selected from the sampling frame for the survey.\n\nEach selected block was updated to include newly built housing units and excluded demolished housing units, which are no longer in  existence. This updating operation was also carried out over a period of 12 months, starting from June 2006 to May 2007. For each PSU, updating was done about one month prior to the scheduled interviewing.\n\nSelection of Secondary Sampling Units (SSU's)\n\nSecondary Sampling Units are the housing units in the selected 2500 primary sampling units (census blocks). From each primary sampling unit 10 housing units (SSU) were selected for the survey. The total sample size of 25000 housing units was selected and distributed among Districts in Sri Lanka.","coll_mode":["Face-to-face [f2f]"],"research_instrument":"The questionnaire was expanded to collect more information related to poverty such as expenditure on food and non-food and income received through different sources than the usual demographic characteristics of the members of \n the households. \n\nThe questionnaire used in the Household Income and Expenditure Survey - 2006\/07 consists of nine parts. They are :\n \n    i. Demographic Characteristics\n    ii. School education (Aged 5 to 20 years)\n    iii. Information related to health\n    vi. Household expenditure\n     v. Household income\n    vi. part a : Inventory of durable goods\n    vi. part b : Debts of the household\n    vii. Access to facilities in the area\n    viii. Information about housing\n    ix. Agriculture holdings and livestock","coll_situation":"Trained personnel were employed for enumeration. An interview of a unit of survey took average five minutes. Additional information has been recorded on the questionnaire as remarks in extreme situations where the determination of a code is ambiguous. Interviews were conducted in all three languages depending on the joint preference of the enumerator and the respondent.","act_min":"A group of enumerators were supervised by a statistical officer and a group of statistical officers were handled by a Statistician.","weight":"http:\/\/www.statistics.gov.lk\/HIES\/HIES%202007\/introduction%20%20HIES.pdf\n\nBy visiting the above website a description about the adjustments  for  non-response  could be read in section  1.4  of  the preliminary  report.","method_notes":"Data was processed in District -wise batches and stored in separate files.\n\nData processing included the following steps: \n\n     1.  Counting and accepting the filled questionnaires by the DP Division\n     2.  Do a visual check for completeness\n     3.  Preliminary editing and marking codes\n     4.  Entry of data \n     5.  Run edit program for each District batch\n     6.  Produce error report and return to the Survey office\n     7.  Correction of errors on the report\n     8.  Change incorrect data using the corrected error report\n     9.  Re-run the edit program and repeat the error correction procedure\n   10.  Produce final report on clean data with a backup of clean data. \n   \n After all batches have been  processed, all data files were combined together and then the following steps were completed for all the data files:\n       11) Re-coding of variables needed for analysis\n       12) Adding of sample weights\n       13) Tabulations"},"analysis_info":{"response_rate":"The all Island response rate was 91%","sampling_error_estimates":"The  estimation  procedure  is  given  in  the   section  1.4  in the Preliminary  Report in the following website\n\nhttp:\/\/www.statistics.gov.lk\/HIES\/HIES%202007\/introduction%20%20HIES.pdf"}},"data_access":{"dataset_use":{"conf_dec":[{"txt":"Under the Statistical ordinance, micro data cannot be released with identifications for public use. Procedures are in place to ensure that information relating to any particular individual person, household or undertaking will be kept strictly confidential and will not be divulged to external parties. Information on individual or individual Household\/establishment will not be divulged or published in such a form that will facilitate the identification of any particular person or establishment as the data have been collected under the Census\/Statistical ordinance, according to which the information at individual level cannot be divulged and such information is strictly confidential.","required":"yes"}],"contact":[{"name":"Director General","affiliation":"Department of Census and Statistics","email":"dgcensus@sltnet.lk","uri":"http\/\/:www.statistics.gov.lk"}],"cit_req":"\"Department of Census and Statistics, Household Income and Expenditure Survey 2006-2007, Version 1.0 of the public use dataset, April, 2008, provided by the National Data Archive, Data Processing Division, www.statistics.gov.lk\"","conditions":"The dataset has been anonymized and is available as a Public Use Dataset. It is  accessible to all for statistical and research purposes only, under the following terms and conditions:\n\n1. The data and other materials will not be redistributed or sold to other individuals, institutions, or organizations without the written agreement.\n \n2. The data will be used for statistical and scientific research purposes only. They will be used solely for reporting of aggregated information, and not for investigation of specific individuals or organizations.\n \n3. No attempt will be made to re-identify respondents, and no use will be made of the identity of any person or establishment discovered inadvertently. \n \n4. No attempt will be made to produce links among datasets provided by the Department  or among data from the Department and other datasets that could identify individuals or organizations. \n\n5. Any books, articles, conference papers, theses, dissertations, reports, or other publications that employ data obtained from the Department will cite the source of data in accordance with the Citation Requirement provided with each dataset. \n\n6. An electronic copy of all reports and publications based on the requested data will be sent to the Department  \n\nThe following rules apply to micro data released by the Department of Census and Statistics.\n\n\u2022 Only the requests of Government Institutions, Recognized Universities, Students, and selected international agencies are entertained. However, the Data users are required to strictly adhere to\nthe terms stipulated in the agreement form.\n\n\u2022 All the data requests should be made to Director General (DG) of the DCS as the sole authority of releasing data is vested with the DG, DCS. DCS of Sri Lanka reserves sole right to approve or reject any data request made depending on the confidential nature of the data set and intended purpose of the study or analysis.\n\n\u2022 Requests for micro data should be made through the agreement form designed by DCS for this purpose (Form D.R.1). The agreement form should be filled in triplicate and the Study\/project proposal should accompany the filled agreement form. If requests are made for the micro data of more than one survey, a separate agreement should be signed.\n\n\u2022 If the data request is from a student a letter from the respective Dept. Head\/Dean\/Supervisor, recommending the issue of data, should also be accompanied.\n\n\u2022 If the request is approved only 25% of the data file is released at the first stage. The release of the total data file is considered only after reviewing the draft report prepared on the basis of the 25% sample data file.\n\n\u2022 The released Data file should be used only for the specific study\/Analysis mentioned in the agreement form and shall not be used for any other purpose without the prior approval of the Director General of the DCS. Moreover, Copies of the micro-data file, obtained from the DCS, shall not be given to anyone else without the prior written approval of the Director General of the DCS.\n\n\u2022 The draft report of the Study\/Analysis should be submitted to the DCS and the concurrence of the DG, DCS, should be obtained before publishing it. Once published, a copy of the final report should be submitted to the DCS.\n\n\n[Department : The Department of Census and Statistics]","disclaimer":"The Department of Census and Satatistics bears no responsibility for any results or interpretations arising from the secondary use of the data."}}},"schematype":"survey"}