A toolkit of practical guidance in conducting household income and expenditure surveys has been developed by the Pacific Community (SPC) for the region, supported by the World Bank.
SPC’s Statistics for Development Division and its expert contributors are sharing a Pacific HIES toolkit, with four new guidance notes available in a modular series of best-practice advice that aims to strengthen HIES-derived data and decision-making for Pacific Island countries and territories.
With HIES being the main (sometimes only) way in the Pacific to understand issues like poverty rates, food consumption and income inequality, the new notes are intended to provide national statistics offices with concrete, real-world guidance to support HIES implementation in a Pacific context.
The toolkit reflects that HIES are significant investments—usually only possible every five years—and face challenging risks of not producing the best, most comparable data in the most efficient way.
To read more, click this link to access the SPC’s Statistics for Development Division webpage.
