Overview

Identification

COUNTRY

Mongolia

TITLE

HSES 2007/2008
 

STUDY TYPE

Socio-Economic/Monitoring Survey [hh/sems]
 

SERIES INFORMATION

The HSES 2007/08 is an improved version of the Household Income and Expenditure Survey (which had been conducted regularly since 1966) and was carried out between July 2007 and June 2008. It is the lat­est among other household surveys implemented by the NSO to evaluate the living standards of the Mon­golian population such as the Assessment of the Living Standards of the Population of Mongolia, 1995; the Living Standards Measurement Survey, 1998; and the Household Income and Expenditure Survey/Liv­ing Standards Measurement Survey, 2002/03. The HSES is a permanent survey and every three years it will feature an extended version. This will not only allow monitoring poverty and living standards annually but also to capture additional information in order to help the government to design better policies.
 

Version

VERSION DESCRIPTION

- v2.1: Edited, anonymous dataset for public distribution.
 

PRODUCTION DATE

2008-07-01

Overview

ABSTRACT

The HSES 2007/08 is a nationally representa­tive survey, whose main objectives are to evalu­ate and monitor the income and expenditure of households, to provide the basis for poverty monitoring system, poverty mapping and poverty reduction policies, to update the basket and the weights for the consumer price index, and to offer inputs to the national accounts. The HSES is a perma­nent survey carried out by the NSO and any 12-month period can be employed for analysis.
 

KIND OF DATA

Sample survey data [ssd]
 

UNITS OF ANALYSIS

Household
 

Scope

NOTES

The scope of the Household Socio-Economic is a household, all members of household and includes:

-Basic socio-economic information about the members of the household

-Education

-Health

-Re­productive health

-Migration

-Employment

-Wage jobs

-Job search

-Agriculture and herding

-Non-farm family businesses

-Other income

-Savings and loans,

-Housing and energy

-Durable goods

-Non­food expenditures and food consumption.
 

Coverage

GEOGRAPHIC COVERAGE

The survey is nationally representative and covers the whole of Mongolia.
 

GEOGRAPHIC UNIT

Mongolia is divided into 21 aimags. Ulaanbaatar is the capital city and is subdivided into 9 districts, 121 khoroos and 1,035 khesegs. Each kheseg has approximately 200 households. The rest of the country is divided into soums and bags. One of the soums in each aimag is normatively considered as the aimag center, while the others are regarded as the rural area. Darkhan-Uul and Orkhon were the only two aimags were 24 bags were selected.
 

UNIVERSE

- Households (defined as a group of persons who usually live and eat together)

- Household members (defined as members of the household who usually live in the household, which may include people who did not sleep in the household the previous night, but does not include visitors who slept in the household the previous night but do not usually live in the household)
 

Producers and Sponsors

PRIMARY INVESTIGATOR(S)

OTHER PRODUCER(S)

FUNDING

Metadata Production

METADATA PRODUCED BY

DATE OF METADATA PRODUCTION

2010-04-08

DDI DOCUMENT VERSION

Version 1.0
 

DDI DOCUMENT ID

DDI-MNG-NSO-EN-HSES-2007/08-v1.0

Sampling

Sampling Procedure

The sampling frame of the HSES was devel­oped by the NSO based on population figures for 2005 from local registration offices. This updated sampling frame is crucial because the spatial distribution of the population had changed dramati­cally over the last years and any frame based on the Census 2000 would have not been relevant anymore.

The design of the survey recognizes three ex­plicit strata: Ulaanbaatar, aimag centers, and ru­ral areas and small towns. In addition, the sample was implicitly allocated by districts and khoroos in Ulaanbaatar, and by aimags in rural areas. Each aimag center was an explicit sub-stratum. The aimag of Govisumber was excluded from the sample due to its small size.

The selection strategy was different in each stratum: a two-stage process in urban areas and a three-stage process in rural areas. In Ulaanbaatar, first 360 khesegs were selected, and then 10 households in each kheseg. In aimag centers, first 12 or 24 bags were selected, and then 10 house­holds in each bag.35 In rural areas, first 52 soums were selected, then 12 bags in each soum and fi­nally 8 households in each bag. All 1,248 primary sampling units or clusters (khesegs, bags or soums) were selected with probability proportional to size and were randomly allocated into the 12 months of survey fieldwork. Thus the survey visited a ran­dom sub-sample of 104 clusters each month.

The use of this sampling procedure means that households living in different areas of the coun­try have been selected with different probabilities. Therefore, in order to obtain representative sta­tistics for each stratum and for the whole coun­try, it is necessary to use sampling weights. These weights are applied to each household and cor­respond to the inverse of the probability of selec­tion, calculated taking into account the sampling strategy.

The sample of 11,232 households was allocated as follows: 3,600 in Ulaanbaatar, 2,640 in aimag centers and 4,992 in rural areas and small towns. However, the actual sample used for this report is slightly lower: 3,571 households in Ulaanbaatar, 2,621 in aimag centers, and 4,980 in rural areas and small towns. The difference corresponds to 60 households that were excluded because they did not have complete information.

Data Collection

Data Collection Dates

Data Collection Mode

Face-to-face [f2f]

DATA COLLECTION NOTES

The overall data quality is to be considered of good standard. On the one hand, the large amounts of information that the HSES collects from households imposed new demands on op­erational strategies and data management com­pared to the previous HIES.

Data Collectors

Data Processing

Data Editing

All procedures were streamlined and centralized, which is likely to have had a positive impact on the quality of the infor­mation. On the other hand, three different rounds of consistency checks were applied to the data: first during the data entry process, then during the compilation of the raw data files and finally during the preparation of this report. In all cases it was possible to compare these listings against the actual questionnaires filled out by the households (and at least during the first round of checks, some households were visited again) and the data were amended whenever a mistake was found.Databases for the HSES 2007/08 have been unified and data error checking was made (by using STATA program) in cooperation with working group.