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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 VILLAGE LEVEL SOCIO-ECONOMIC DATA COLLECTION AND ITS USEDATA COLLECTION AND ITS USE
OF CAMBODIAOF CAMBODIA
By Seng SoeurnBy Seng Soeurn
National Institute of Statistics, CambodiaNational Institute of Statistics, Cambodia
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.
BackgroundBackground
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.
Background (cont.)Background (cont.)
Experience of Various HouseholdExperience of Various HouseholdSocio-Economic SurveySocio-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
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
Experience of Various Household Experience of Various Household Socio-Economic Survey Socio-Economic Survey
Data collectionData 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 questionnaireUses of questionnaire
There are 4 types questionnaire:- Listing sheet- Village questionnaire- Household questionnaire (income and expenditures)- Diary sheet- Time use
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
Listing of householdsListing of households
Household questionnaireHousehold 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 questionnaireHousehold questionnaire(cont.) (cont.)
Durables goods Construction activities Nutrition Fertility and child care Mortality HIV/AIDS Victimization Time sue survey
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
Village questionnaireVillage questionnaire
Main topics for Agriculture collected in Main topics for Agriculture collected in the household surveythe 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 dataUses 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
Thank you for your attentionThank you for your attention